Processes-oriented maturity framework for Lean Manufacturing with health-at-work and performance management objectives

Lean Manufacturing for High Performance

Framework for a lean manufacturing planning system

This paper presents a planning system for Lean Manufacturing and is applicable to a variety of manual and automated manufacturing operations. By defining a standard set of Lean Manufacturing metrics, our research sets up a framework for performance measurement and benchmarking. A financial Cost of Waste measure is developed from data on current performance levels, and the planning framework dev...

Lean Maturity, Lean Sustainability

Although lean is rapidly growing in popularity, its implementation is far from problem free and companies may experience difficulties sustaining long term success. In this paper, it is suggested that sustainable lean requires attention to both performance improvement and capability development. A framework for describing levels of lean capability is presented, based on a brief review of the lit...

A Lean Manufacturing Roadmap for an Automotive Body Assembly Line within Axiomatic Design Framework

In this paper we are to present a practical application of Axiomatic Design (AD) methodology, as a roadmap to lean production, in redesigning a car body assembly line. Axiomatic Design theory provides a framework to simplify the whole problem. According to the AD principles, a hierarchical structure has been developed. The developed structure originated in lean manufacturing principles and exis...

Enhancing Lean Supply Chain Maturity with Business Process Management

In today’s global market the main focus of competition is not only between different companies but also between supply chains. Technological changes and organizational improvements are important for effective supply chain management (SCM), however, the main cause of SCM improvements is not the implementation of an information system (IS) itself, but rather a change and an integration of busines...