An urgent need in American health care is improving quality and efficiency while controlling costs. One promising management approach implemented by some leading health care institutions is Lean, a quality improvement philosophy and set of principles originated by the Toyota Motor Company. Health care cases reveal that Lean is as applicable in complex knowledge work as it is in assembly-line ma...

At present scenario, Lean Manufacturing has become a world wide phenomenon. It is quite successful in drawing the attention of companies of all sizes. A large number of organizations are following Lean technologies and experiencing vast improvements in quality, production, customer service, and profitability. Lean Manufacturing is a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste throu...

The present study examined whether gender, type of sport (lean v. non-lean), body dissatisfaction and self esteem were associated with disordered eating behaviors in Division I college athletes. More female than male athletes displayed disordered eating behaviors; approximately one-quarter of the population was at risk for a clinically diagnosable eating disorder. The results also revealed that...

In manufacturing, great gains in performance have been realized by a new production philosophy, which leads to "lean production". This new production philosophy is a generalization of such partial approaches as JIT, TQM, time-based competition, and concurrent engineering. In construction, lean production is little known. The concepts, principles and methods of lean production are reviewed, and ...

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...

Research on Lean indicates that its association with performance improvement, although compelling, is not uniformly positive. Prior researchers have posited plants implementing may become too lean or only implement selected aspects without fully embracing Lean’s synergistic prescriptions. We explore another potential reason for lower-than-expected sometimes associated Lean: supply chain complex...

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one of the issues of reducing waste and therefore increasing productivity in manufacturing enterprises is to endow with smooth and good production layout. thus, identification and assessment of the factors hindering the realization of the expected productivity of the production flow layout is the important. one of these factors is waste; organizations can make layouts and production stream prod...

Lean management with organizational commitment of employees is recognized to improve hospital service operations. This research explores the extent to which lean management practices are adopted by hospitals in Thailand. The purpose of this paper is to investigate lean practices and organizational commitment affecting operational performance in hospitals. Data was collected from the hospital im...

Lean production refers to approaches initially developed by Toyota that focuses on the elimination of waste in all forms. Lean has been extremely successful in large high volume manufacturers. However, many small to medium size low volume manufacturers have not fully embraced the potential benefits of a lean production system. This paper focuses on the implementation of lean in a small manufact...