The Expanded and Annotated My Life and Work

Chapter 4  The Secret of Manufacturing and Serving ..................... 47
Material Selection and Design for Reliability (DFR)............49
Standardization Holds Down Costs .......................................53
Work for Continuous Cost Reduction ....................................55
Improve the Productivity of the Individual Worker .......55
The Importance of Reliability .............................................57
Chapter 5  Getting into Production .................................................. 59
The Birth of the Assembly Line ...............................................61
Basic Job Design Principles .................................................62
Subdivision of Labor ............................................................63
Ergonomics and the Adjustable Height Skillet ................ 64
How to Run a Balanced Factory at (Almost) 100% 
Capacity .................................................................................65
The Introduction of Cellular Manufacturing ...................67
Ignore the Nyet Engineers ....................................................... 68
Keep the Work in Continuous Motion, Avoid Batch 
Operations ..................................................................................70
Subdivide the Job to Eliminate Waste Motion ......................71
Automate Jobs and Reduce Material Transfer Distances ....72
Ford’s Keynotes of Production ................................................73