Does Anyone Care About Manufacturing?
manufacturing? In “Factory Man,” a new autobiography to be published in
Harbour
or even Congress but rather
Recognized as a leading automotive industry analyst and founder of The
Harbour Report, a study of original equipment manufacturers’ performance,
Harbour has co-authored this factual, non-technical book with
Higgins
covered the industry for most of his career at The Detroit News.
“Factory Man” clearly presents the insights and viewpoints of an
automotive “insider” who became an “outsider” and one of the industry’s main
critics. It is a brutally honest assessment of what was wrong with U.S.
automakers from the 1950s into the early 21st century. Harbour states his
views very strongly and is a highly opinioned observer of the auto industry.
His views are as relevant to the condition of the auto industry today, as they
were in 1981 when he issued his first Harbour Report.
Says
clear and compelling analysis of what has gone wrong with American auto
manufacturing, and how it can be put right. The frequent human interest
anecdotes make it an absorbing non-technical read.”
Harbour’s work experiences while at Ford Motor Company and at the Chrysler
Corporation, takes readers on a personal trip to see how Harbour’s discovery
and evaluation of the Toyota Production System — documented in his Harbour
Report — gave impetus to his efforts in pushing Chrysler and the other “Big
Three” American auto companies to change their production systems to become
more competitive with Japanese car companies.
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