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Book Brief: The Perfect Engine

Sep 1, 2001
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The Perfect Engine: How to Win in the New Demand Economy by Building to Order With Fewer Resources

By Anand Sharma and Patricia E. Moody

Free Press

304 pages, $30

Two well-known manufacturing experts offer a new manufacturing technique—a combination of lean production and Six Sigma quality principles that has led to a decrease in average production time and capital investment, an increase in productivity and a reduction in lead time. The book also discusses how the Internet will transform manufacturing.

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