Notes from Toyota-Land: An American Engineer in Japan

by Robert Perrucci and Darius Mehri

Book Overview

In 1996, Darius Mehri traveled to Japan to work as a computer simulation engineer within the Toyota production system. Once there, he found a corporate experience far different from what he had expected. Notes from Toyota-land , based on a diary that Mehri kept during his three years at an upper-level Toyota group company, provides a unique insider's perspective on daily work life in Japan and charts his transformation from a wide-eyed engineer eager...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801442893
• ISBN13: 9780801442896
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher