Cost performance dynamics in lean production leveling

Minimizing the Cost of Lean Production Control Transition

Firms that implement lean principles commonly adopt pull production control techniques (especially kanbans). Changing a manufacturing system from push to pull production control, while ultimately beneficial, can be disruptive. This paper studies the transition process in a single-stage manufacturing system. It describes the three events that characterize this transition and the associated costs...

On Just-In-Time Production Leveling

Lean production in construction

In manufacturing, great gains in performance have been realized by a new production philosophy, which leads to "lean production". This new production philosophy is a generalization of such partial approaches as JIT, TQM, time-based competition, and concurrent engineering. In construction, lean production is little known. The concepts, principles and methods of lean production are reviewed, and ...

and Lean Production

Lean software development Lean software development (LSD) is a translation of lean manufacturing and lean IT principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production System, a pro-lean subculture is emerging from within the Agile community. Origin The term lean software development originated in a book by the same name, written by Mary Poppendieck and Tom ...

Identifying Real Cost Saving in Lean Manufacturing