Pharmaceuticals and manufacturing companies early on learned the role Lean management philosophies can play in keeping them competitive. Effective Lean initiatives start with an understanding of what value means in the eyes of the customer; Lean then sets out to pinpoint where and how value is added. It focuses organizations on ensuring that resources are applied to deliver that value as effect...

The article explores the techniques and tools of lean manufacturing, formulates concept implementing approaches in transportation enterprises. Lean manufacturing technologies are necessary for industry, their application is already progress many companies with varying speed effectiveness. To achieve this, firstly, existing practices enterprises analysed, secondly, organisation flow individual l...

Title of Document: SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF PRODUCTION CONTROL FOR LEAN MANUFACTURING TRANSITION Sean M. Gahagan, Ph.D., 2008 Directed By: Associate Professor Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Department of Mechanical Engineering Lean manufacturing is an operations management philosophy that advocates eliminating waste, including work-in-process (WIP) inventory. A common mechanism for controlling WIP ...

Implementing lean manufacturing concepts is essential for companies in the manufacturing and service industries to survive in the very competitive global marketplace. A key point is to eliminate waste while delivering value to the customers. Thus, graduates from engineering programs such as manufacturing, industrial and systems engineering and engineering management must be able to focus and ap...

Supply chain designs are constrained by the cost-service trade-off. Cost minimization typically leads to physically efficient or lean supply chains at the expense of customer responsiveness or agility. Recently, the concept of leagility has been introduced. Research on leagility, defined as the capability of concurrently deploying the lean and agile paradigms, hinges heavily on the identificati...

BACKGROUND "Lean" is a set of principles and techniques that drive organizations to continually add value to the product they deliver by enhancing process steps that are necessary, relevant, and valuable while eliminating those that fail to add value. Lean has been used in manufacturing for decades and has been associated with enhanced product quality and overall corporate success. OBJECTIVES...

In the past several years, consumer demand has forced the swine industry to select for an animal with increased percent lean and higher lean accretion rates. Paylean is a technology that has been shown to increase carcass leanness while improving growth performance when fed to finishing pigs. It has been documented that average daily gain (ADG) and feed efficiency (F:G) are improved when feedin...

With the real-time access to the Internet and search engines like Google and with the increased global competition, customers have more power than ever before. They demand innovative product features, greater speed, more product variety, dependable performance and quality at a best in class and at a competitive price. Furthermore, today’s discerning consumers expect fulfilment of demand almost ...

A systemic reappraisal of the thermic effect of food was done in lean and obese males randomly fed mixed meals containing 0, 8, 16, 24, and 32 kcal/kg fat-free mass. Densitometric analysis was used to measure body composition. Preprandial and postprandial energy expenditures were measured by indirect calorimetry. The data show that the thermic effect of food was linearly correlated with caloric...

Abstract Changing a traditional company into lean one is very complex and time-consuming process that needs to be addressed in an appropriate way, otherwise the project of introduction leanness may fail on hand even have negative impact business operations other. When introducing change, step-by-step procedure leading progress great help. The paper outlines general leanness, important part whic...