Talk:Lean manufacturing/Archives/2019

Benjamin Franklin is a problem
The section Lean manufacturing looks nonsensical. As the section was flagged two years ago, I am for the moment hiding it so that users are not misled into believing that any of it is fact. Nkofa (talk) 16:42, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
 * No source for Franklin's role as a "founding father" of LM is provided.
 * He certainly did nothing intentional in his lifetime to create what became LM.
 * Franklin did not create many (maybe most) of the aphorisms he published (though he did often make common folk-sayings read better).
 * He did however collect a bunch of them in The Way to Wealth.
 * Inclusion of a few snappy epigrams selected by an editor is cherry-picking or likely quote-mining.
 * This is synthesis, used to publish original research as if established fact.
 * No source is provided for the Ford claim.
 * And despite the intimation, Ford is not mentioned at all in Just-in-time manufacturing much less credited as a "founding father" of either Toyota strategy.