‘Lean Dancing’: How Involvement in Continuous Improvement and Lean Techniques Relate to Hospital Performance and Workers’ Wellbeing through Autonomy

Performance Improvement Programs and Lean Construction

The paper examines the relationship between Lean Construction and Performance Improvement programs in construction organizations. The authors argue that the structure and focus of existing performance improvement programs are a barrier to Lean Construction’s entry into the

Lean Six Sigma and the Quest for Continuous Improvement

Creating and sustaining a Lean culture of continuous process improvement.

Lean is the automobile manufacturing production system of the Toyota Motor Corporation that many businesses have been trying to reproduce for over 30 years.1,2 To desire the benefits of Lean requires direct extrapolation or some parallel of Toyota’s manufacturing-based production methods of efficiency and process improvement to different work environments. This is not as easy as it may seem, es...

Lean ERP: How ERP Systems and Lean Management Fit Together

Lean Management and ERP-systems are seen as contradicting each other. Lean Management goes for low cost automation, simplicity and high visibility of information flow whereas ERP-systems might become complex and intransparent. This article outlines a research project that combines pros of both. This is called Lean ERP. First results of a study showed that it really is a niche market while a sur...

Applying 5S Lean Technology: An Infrastructure for Continuous Process Improvement

This paper presents an application of 5S lean technology to a production facility. Due to increased demand, high product variety, and a push production system, the plant has suffered from excessive wastes, unorganized workstations, and unhealthy work environment. This has translated into increased production cost, frequent delays, and low workers morale. Under such conditions, it has become dif...