Acknowledgments
Thank you to the many dozens of people who have given me access to their companies and factories, who worked with me or in parallel in testing ideas, engaged in discussion about what we were learning, critiqued my thoughts, and were happy to keep going.
This book also reflects an ongoing dialogue with an ardent group of fellow experimenters, whom I count as colleagues, mentors, and friends. Thank you to: John Shook (who was coincidentally preparing a book on a related topic), Professor H. Thomas Johnson (Portland State University), Dr. Ralph Richter (Robert Bosch GmbH), Gerd Aulinger (Festool), Jim Huntzinger, Professor Jochen Deuse (Technical University Dortmund), Dr. Andreas Ritzenhoff and Dr. Lutz Engel (Seidel GmbH & Co. KG), ...
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