Competitive advantage can be seen as the superiority of some market participants to properly use resources and utilize key competencies deliver greater value than competitors, without compromising product quality functionality. In that sense, accounting, especially management successfully responds managers’ needs for information will their adequate support in strategy implementation. Lean conce...

PURPOSE This purpose of this paper is to examine the application and outcomes of applying all of the seven lean flows to pathology laboratory remodelling as part of a lean rapid improvement event (RIE). DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Longitudinal case study of a lean RIE linking emergency and pathology departments focusing on the systematic application of lean's seven flows to the physical envir...

Just-In-Time (JIT) is a lean manufacturing tool, which provides the benefits of efficiency, and of minimizing unnecessary costs for many organisations. However, the risks arising from these benefits have been disregarded. These risks impact on system processes disrupting the whole supply chain. This paper proposes an inventory model that can simultaneously reduce costs and risks in JIT systems....

Given recent increases in global competition, scarce resources, and fluctuating economies, it is not surprising that lean production has become critical to the long-term survival of today’s manufacturing organizations. Lean is a management philosophy focused on identifying and eliminating waste throughout a product’s entire value stream, extending not onlywithin theorganization but also along t...

The demands on efficiency and quality in the public sector have increased over the past few years, which have raised the need for strategies on how the public sector can be improved (Denhardt and Denhardt, 2000). Consequently, the concept of Lean production, or just Lean, have become increasingly spread, especially in health care, but also in government agencies, police, military and social ser...

In spite of thevast researchpublishedon leanmanufacturing systems in several disciplines in the last decade, the concept remains underdeveloped for two reasons. First, it lacks a generally accepted definition. Different authors define lean in terms of its objectives, which vary, overlap and differ in different firms. Second, no study has developed a systematic and relative measure of lean produ...

Abstract Over the past few decades, construction productivity has been at a standstill. Lean and Building Information Modelling (BIM) is attracting increasing interest in industry as way to increase productivity. This paper aims contribute body of knowledge by identifying hitherto unexplored opportunities for use BIM functionalities support facilitators application lean practices phase. A syste...

Modern day industry is becoming leaner by the day. This demands engineers with an in-depth understanding of lean philosophies. Current methods for teaching lean include hands-on projects and simulation. However, simulation games available in the market lack simplicity, ability to store the results, and modeling power. The goal of this research is to develop a virtual simulation platform which w...

Agile manufacturing is the winning strategy to be adopted by manufacturers for dramatic performance enhancements to become national and international leaders in an increasingly competitive market of fast changing customer requirements. The methodology of this research is archive type which exploited of various foreign articles and books. A structural model includes the primary components of Jus...