U.S. Factories Are Stuck In Low Gear. Reprinted from Harvard Business Review December 1986.

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Secondary headline: In the world of flexible manufacturing, America is stubbornly clinging to old ideas. "With few exceptions, the flexible manufacturing systems installed in the United States show an astonishing lack of flexibility. In many cases, they perform worse than the conventional technology they replace. The technology itself is not to blame; it is management that makes the difference. Compared with Japanese systems, those in U.S. plants produce a dramatically smaller variety of parts. Furthermore, they cannot run untended for a whole shift..."

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