Radical New Way to Build Vehicles Here's a way to fix the broken automotive business model

摘要

THERE IS A NEW, BETTER WAY TO BUILD cars, and it does not require a traditional assembly line. That's the premise of a startlingly different way of looking at manufacturing from former auto executive Thomas Crumm. I put Crumm's insight right up there with the best thinkers of the modern industrial era, from Frederick Winslow Taylor, whose ideas about efficiency and scientific management shaped 20th century assembly lines to visionaries such as Taiichi Ohno, the father of the revolutionary Toyota Production System. In his fascinating book "What Is Good For General Motors?" Crumm dissects the inefficiencies of the moving assembly line and shows there really is a different way to build vehicles; one that's far more efficient and requires much lower investment costs.