00:22:47 Brian Lamb
You say you visited 90. How many of your people were involved, then? All these researchers?
00:22:53 Daniel Roos
The person who holds the record and one of our principal researchers is Jack Krafcik who visited, I believe, 90 plants throughout the world.
00:23:04 Brian Lamb
Ninety plants?
00:23:05 Daniel Roos
Yes.
00:23:06 Brian Lamb
Did you have any automobile companies anywhere in the world that said you couldn't see what they did?
00:23:11 Daniel Roos
The Koreans were not direct participants in the study, but they did allow us to come into their plants.
00:23:21 Brian Lamb
I guess what I'm really asking is did anybody not cooperate?
00:23:25 Daniel Roos
No, I can't think of anyone.
00:23:26 Brian Lamb
And the Japanese didn't have any problems letting you see things right up close and watching how the process works?
00:23:32 Daniel Roos
That's correct. Now, bear in mind that we were not trying to delve into corporate secrets. That was not what this program was about. This program was about increasing understanding, and so to a large extent we really did not want to be shown secret information and we relied almost entirely on publicly available information, but access to take a look and make our own conclusions.
00:24:00 Brian Lamb
You have three names on the front of this book. Who actually wrote it?