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Books: “Factory Man”-- How to Save Detroit

How Jim Harbour discovered Toyota’s quality and productivity methods and helped the U.S. auto industry get competitive.

Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Fri, 06/19/2009 - 08:45
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(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Three C’s of efficient manufacturing are common, common, and common,” says James E. Harbour, in his new autobiography, “Factory Man,” published this year by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). Harbour says implementing “common” will be a much greater challenge for global manufacturing processes with the accelerated restructuring of companies wanting to survive.

Recognized as a leading automotive industry analyst and founder of The Harbour Report, a study of original equipment manufacturers’ (OEMs) manufacturing performance, Harbour has co-authored this factual, non-technical book with James V. Higgins, an award-winning automotive reporter, columnist, and editor who covered the industry for most of his career at The Detroit News.

In “Factory Man,” Harbour talks about common-based manufacturing. A few of his assessments:

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