The Lean Manufacturing strategy aims at developing the enterprise value chain concept. The Lean makes extensive use of new organizational strategies such as business refocusing and development strategies for interenterprise collaboration. These reorganizations involve agility to deal with structural changes supported by communication technologies. However, the multiplicity of enterprise IT lead...

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to propose a robust ‘observation’ procedure drawn from the social science research literature for adoption in a Lean Six Sigma project setting. A case study illustrates the application of the proposed observation procedure in a Lean Six Sigma project undertaken in a European airport to improve process speed and reduce variability. Design/methodology/approach...

Executive Overview Toyota’s Production System (TPS) is based on “lean” principles including a focus on the customer, continual improvement and quality through waste reduction, and tightly integrated upstream and downstream processes as part of a lean value chain. Most manufacturing companies have adopted some type of “lean initiative,” and the lean movement recently has gone beyond the shop flo...

Along with the progress of globalization, speed and efficiency have become more critical for any industry than ever before. In this sense, the concept and methods of lean management, promoting these performances, have been deployed from manufacturing, its origin industry, to other industries. This paper deals with this management style in the construction industry, called lean construction. In ...

The modern manufacturing environment is highly turbulent so as to satisfy the dynamic needs of customers’. To enable the achievement of competitiveness in this complex business environment, newer manufacturing strategies have been introduced for enabling waste elimination and enhancing flexibility and responsiveness of systems. Fit manufacturing is a competitive manufacturing paradigm which inc...

This study presents a practical framework for introducing lean principles in small manufacturing shops. These shops are characterized by low volume, large variety and one-of-a kind products, accounting for a significant portion of the U.S. manufacturing industry. The potential challenges for adopting a lean system in small manufacturing shops are reviewed. An implementation strategy encompassin...

The powerful combination of lean principles and digital technologies accelerates waste identification mitigation faster than traditional methods. new (also referred to as Lean 4.0) solutions incorporate sensors equipment, yielding innovative that extend the reach tools. tracking flexible configurable production systems is not straightforward in a simple conveyor. This paper examines how informa...

higher education plays a very vital role in developing human resources as well as economic ones in every country. in so doing, the act of evaluation would help the decision makers as well as managers to spot the weaknesses to use the required provisions to work more effectively. the present study with a different approach toward the designing a comprehensive evaluation expert system using fuzzy...

The article discusses potential applications of a risk-based approach to health facility management. study analyzed various management models, as well process-oriented and project-oriented systems, the use risk management, quality standards, lean technologies (lean manufacturing), scorecard interfaces (score ratings). presents results applying analysis, which was developed using balanced that d...

Managers seeking to improve lead-time performance are challenged by how to balance resources and investments between process improvement achieved through lean/justin-time (JIT) practices and information technology (IT) deployment. However, extant literature provides little guidance on this question. Motivated by both practical importance and lack of academic research, this article examines empi...