Lean Projects and Sustainability in the Swedish Agricultural Sector
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The Lean philosophy is increasingly being implemented, both in industry and the public sector. Examples of this include Produktionslyftet (The Production Leap) and Verksamhetslyftet (an educational project helping hospitals and municipalities in their work to implement lean principles in their organizations), two larger programmes that have been researched by academia. For more information about the programmes, please see: www.produktionslyftet.se and www.verksamhetslyftet.se. The Swedish agricultural sector has been subjected to international competition, which farmers have found hard to keep up with. Hushållningssällskapet in Halland (Swedish Rural Economy and Agricultural Societies in Halland) has therefore initiated a project, Lantbruket lär av industrin (Agriculture adopts lessons learned from manufacturing), to implement the Lean philosophy in microenterprises with a similar methodology to Produktionslyftet.
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