This paper provides an extensive review of studies carried out in lean production environments in the last 20 years. It aims to identify the effects of lean production (negative or positive) on occupational health and related risk factors. Thirty-six studies of lean effects were accepted from the literature search and sorted by sector and type of outcome. Lean production was found to have a neg...

Since 1990s, many enterprises in Chinese Mainland have deployed lean production in consideration of its great success in other countries, but many of them failed to realize their original targets. The paper reviews the course from mass to lean, analyzes the status of lean production in Chinese mainland, points out the problems Chinese enterprises met in implementing lean production and makes a ...

In the article authors propose a theoretical rethinking of traditional understanding environmental management and practical application Japanese method «Lean production» to sustainable development Russian enterprises allows not only adapt them innovative changes based on generations dynamic effective global managerial technologies, solutions covering world in recent decades, but also make by en...

Lean manufacturing is a strategic concern for companies which conduct mass production and it has become even more significant for those producing in a project-oriented way by modularization.  In this paper, a bi-objective optimization model is proposed to design and plan a supply chain up to the final assembly centre. The delivery time and the quality in the procurement and low fluctuation of t...

For more than 20 years the enterprises of Russian Federation have been in- troducing concept lean production. The article analyzes systematic work organizations to improve efficiency and competitiveness production systems through introduction tools methods production; results «Efficient Region» project implemented by regions in cooperation with «Rosatom» State Corporation «Increasing labor prod...

The key to achieving low-carbon manufacturing is effectively reduce the carbon emissions of production systems and improve benefits. use lean green tools aids in measuring added value products, increases efficiency sustainability systems. To address this problem verify that synergetic relationship between innovation systems, a new evaluation indicator—carbon benefit—in was discussed. A decision...

The origins of lean production are reviewed and a claim made that it is a new form of production management, that is neither mass nor craft. Then the applicability of lean production in construction is considered and nature of lean construction discussed in comparison with current practice.

This article presents a tactical supply chain planning model that can be used to investigate tradeoffs between cost and environmental degradation including carbon emissions, energy consumption and waste generation. The proposed model also incorporates other aspects of real world supply chains such as multiple transport lot sizing and flexible holding capacity of warehouses. A solution methodolo...

reducing wastes in the healthcare processes is crucial for developing a high performance health system. adopted from the toyota production system (tps), the lean concept has emerged in recent years as a way of introducing innovative ideas to improve industrial processes. in the context of health care, lean is considered as a continuous improvement model, which provides healthcare organization t...