books.google.com - This is the "green book" that started it all -- the first book in English on JIT, written from the engineer's viewpoint. When Omark Industries bought 500 copies and studied it companywide, Omark became the American pioneer in JIT.Here is Dr. Shingo's classic industrial engineering rationale for the priority...http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Study_of_the_Toyota_Production_System.html?id=RKWU7WElJ7oC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA Study of the Toyota Production System from an Industrial Engineering Viewprint