"The Machine That Changed the World" (1990) by James Womack et al popularised Toyota's manufacturing system with its emphasis on just-in-time parts and proactive workers.

詹姆斯•沃麦克等人的著作《改变世界的机器》(1990年)将日本丰田汽车公司的生产制造系统推广开，该系统强调零件应恰好够用并且员工应具有前瞻性。

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Others struggled over the next weeks and months to get parts for their manufacturing operations, a logjam that led many to rethink Japan's famed ‘just-in-time’ system of inventory.

其它企业在其后数周乃至数月内都难以部分恢复其制造业务，这种困境，让许多人开始反思日本著名的“及时反应”(just-in-time)库存体系。

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Just-in-Time manufacturing is a process allowing reduced inventory and rapid correction for quality problems, improving quality.

即时制造是一种过程，它允许用减少库存和快速修正来解决质量问题，从而提高质量。

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The program--known as the clunky "At the Customer, For the Customer"--taps the parent company's wealth of expertise in the vaunted Six Sigma defect-reduction method, just-in-time manufacturing and such management pursuits as succession planning.

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Evan Saks, the founder of online mattress maker Create-a-Mattress, says manufacturing technology that ties orders to production known as just-in-time manufacturing and Web-based tools have done away with the need for inventory managers or warehouse staff, among other workers.

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From Japan we learned just in time inventory control, manufacturing quality control and continuous improvement, innovation in consumer electronics design, and an appreciation for sushi.

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