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American industrialist who founded Ford Motor Company and introduced the moving assembly line — reducing the time to build a Model T from 12 hours to 93 minutes and creating the template for 20th-century mass production.
Taylor's account of his system of scientific management — analyzing work processes with scientific precision to maximize efficiency and eliminate waste.
Frederick Winslow Taylor's 1911 monograph describing scientific management — applying systematic time-and-motion studies, task standardization, and performance pay to maximize worker productivity — the founding text of industrial management.
Taiichi Ohno's account of the Toyota Production System — the just-in-time manufacturing system that transformed global industrial practice and became the foundation of lean manufacturing.