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During the 1980s, U.S.

manufacturing companies rediscovered the power that comes from superior


manufacturing and initiated a variety of activities to improve their competitiveness. Many
announced that their “manufacturing strategy” was to become “world-class”—as good, along
various measures, as the best companies in their industries. In pursuing this goal, they typically
adopted one or more of a growing number of improvement programs, such as TQM (Total Quality
Management), JIT (Just-in-Time) production, and DFM (Design for Manufacturability), not to
mention lean manufacturing, reengineering, benchmarking, and the ubiquitous team approach.

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