Culture and the Foundry Industry

摘要

On the foundry floor would be found the main 4-M factors of production: men, machines, materials, and methods which are all interconnected together by the fifth-M, money. While all the others could be more or less standardized, the very first one, "men," defies standardization and is the one single factor that could easily make the difference between foundries, especially those from different countries. This is because the culture between countries could make the immense difference in production efficiency and productivity.