Then I went over to the great arms factory and learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything; guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery. Why, I could make anything a body wanted— anything in the world, it didn't make any difference what; and if there wasn't any quick new-fangled way to make a thing, I could invent one— and do it as easy as rolling off a log.

Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Every thoughtful man has an idea of what ought to be; but what the world is waiting for is a social and economic blueprint.
…We want artists in industrial relationships. We want masters in industrial method, both from the standpoint of the producer and the product. We want those who can mold the political, social, industrial, and moral mass into a sound and shapely whole.

Henry Ford (the real-life counterpart of Mark Twain's one-man Industrial Revolution), Ford Ideals (1922)

"To sell raw materials and buy finished goods makes one poor; to buy raw materials and sell finished goods makes one rich."
     Chancellor of the Convocation Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1764. (Zamoyski, The Polish Way, pp. 238-139)

Henry Ford, the real-world equivalent of Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee, believed that industry holds the solution to most of society's problems. Nothing has happened to change this; manufacturing, and only manufacturing, can create almost limitless wealth. Manufacturing is the foundation of the United States' affluence and national security, and our nation must preserve and expand its manufacturing base. Industrial methods can also reduce the cost of services while improving their quality, and this has critical implications for health care.

It is the mission of Levinson Productivity Systems to help clients achieve the above vision through lean manufacturing, statistical, and quality assurance methods. Success comes only from a systems approach, i.e. synergistic and mutually supporting management and technological techniques, as opposed to stand-alone programs-of-the-year.