Lean Production and information technology: Connection or contradiction?

Reducing Errors by RFID Technology to Achieve Lean Healthcare

Reducing wastes in the healthcare processes is crucial for developing a high performance health system. Adopted from the Toyota Production System (TPS), the Lean concept has emerged in recent years as a way of introducing innovative ideas to improve industrial processes. In the context of health care, Lean is considered as a continuous improvement model, which provides healthcare organization t...

Determining maintenance system requirements by viewpoint of availability and lean thinking: A MODM approach

Since lean concept has appeared many works have been done on decreasing or even eliminating of wastes such as extra inventory. Although these studies have not taken into account expected availability seriously. So in this paper, a Multiple Objective Decision Making (MODM) model has been developed by viewpoint of these subjects. They are decreasing wastes and increasing system availability. Wast...

Identifying and ranking effective lean production factors on economic performance of production companies in Mazandaran province of Iran based on FDANP approach

A fuzzy model for achieving lean attributes for competitive advantages development using AHP-QFD-PROMETHEE

Lean production has become an integral part of the manufacturing landscape as its link with superior performance and its ability to provide competitive advantage is well accepted among academics and practitioners. Lean production helps producers in overcoming the challenges organizations face through using powerful tools and enablers. However, most companies are faced with restricted resources ...

Impact of use of information technology on lean production adoption: evidence from the automotive industry

In this paper we analyse the existing interrelationships between information technology (IT) and the adoption of lean production. More specifically, the level of adoption of lean production is studied in accordance with the degree of use and the kind of IT used (internal and external IT). The results of the study show how companies need to augment the degree of use of internal or intra-organisa...