精益生产方式是日本丰田汽车公司结合本国实际创造的一种独具一格的生产方式,亦即丰田生产方式。它是继大量生产方式后管理上的又一场革命。运用这种生产方式,日本迅速发展了本国的汽车工业,并从70年代末开始,以质量高和价格低的产品大量进入美国市场,动摇了美国汽车工业长期垄断世界汽车市场的霸主地位。80年代中期,美国集中了一批各国的高级专家,研究了日 Lean production method is a unique production method that Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan combined with its own reality to create, that is, Toyota production methods. It is another revolution in management after mass production. Using this mode of production, Japan rapidly developed its own automobile industry. Since the late 1970s, Japan has massively entered the U.S. market with high-quality and low-priced products, shaken the dominance of the U.S. auto industry in monopolizing the world’s automobile market for a long time. In the mid-1980s, the United States brought together a group of top experts from various countries to study Japan