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James? >> reporter: jenna, good afternoon. we're all familiar with how henry ford developed the assembly line production method in the early 20th century. more recently it has been a japanese car maker that has pioneered the next evolution on lean manufacturing. in essence, it streamlines the assembly line so that everyone involved in a given project from designers to suppliers to sales people, even marketers truly work together in the same space keeping inventory to a minimum and delivering the finished product as close to point of sale as possible. but a professor of industrial engineering t...
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