Dear OM List Serve Member
Please refer to information below re new book from Bob Emiliani, Ph.D, Central Connecticut State
University, School of Engineering and Technology.
Regards
Mile'
I?d like to call you attention to a new book titled Principles of Mass and Flow Production, which
should be of great interest to academics who teach operations management or who are interested
in the history of industrial management and flow production. The book is a 55th Anniversary
Special Reprint Edition of Frank G. Woollard?s long-forgotten book published in 1954, and
includes his amazing 1925 paper ?Some Notes on British Methods of Continuous Production.? Both
are presented as unabridged digitized images of the original works, and include commentary and
analysis by noted Lean management practitioner, author and educator, Bob Emiliani.
Woollard?s work is significant because it lies between the time of Henry Ford (Model T era) and
Kiichiro Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Motor Corporation. He made major contributions to
progressive manufacturing management practices in the British automobile industry of the 1920s,
and was also the first to develop and implement mechanical materials handling equipment known
as automatic transfer machines. His work is comparable to that of the legendary Taiichi Ohno, the
principal architect of Toyota Motor Corporation?s production system. Frank Woollard?s work is
highly relevant to current-day Lean management because he understood the idea and practice of
continuous improvement in a flow environment and recognized the importance of what is today
called the ?Respect for People? principle.
Book details are reader comments are listed below.
Regards,
Bob Emiliani, Ph.D.
Central Connecticut State University
School of Engineering and Technology
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050
Phone: 860.832.3229
FAX: 860.832.1806
emilianibob@ccsu.edu
http://www.technology.ccsu.edu/personnel/information/emiliani.html