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Benjamin Franklin is a problem

The section Lean manufacturing#Pre-20th century looks nonsensical.

  • 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).
  • 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.

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)