OBJECTIVES This current study investigates the effect of lean management system on work attitudes of workers of two manufacturing companies. "Lean management" is a concept of work processes and human relations that determines company's productivity and profitability. Workers of two enterprises, the first one with lean production and the second one with old mass production, were compared for the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the definition of lean production and the methods and goals associated with the concept as well as how it differs from other popular management concepts. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a review of the contemporary literature on lean production, both journal articles and books. Findings – It is shown in the paper that the...

Our research addresses the confusion and inconsistency associated with “lean production.” We attempt to clarify the semantic confusion surrounding lean production by conducting an extensive literature review using a historical evolutionary perspective in tracing its main components. We identify a key set of measurement items by charting the linkages between measurement instruments that have bee...

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...

Lean production, which has revolutionary production management and practice manner, is the third milestone of human industrialization history. Its key point is to eliminate waste in all aspects of a firm’s production activities through establishing production system with high agility. It represents the tendency of modern manufacturing industry. It has been credited as the standard production ma...

Lean Management is a standard production mode that has been familiar to production organizations for several decades. To date, however, academic literature has presented surprisingly little information about the application of Lean Management in Information Technology (IT) organizations, or what is called Lean IT. Drawing upon an empirical qualitative case study of the IT departments of two mul...

The application of lean manufacturing has been successfully proved that can reduce the work in process, increase service level and shorten cycle time simultaneously. Many guidelines are proposed for traditional production systems to achieving lean manufacturing. However, there is no evidence of work applying lean manufacturing principles to fishing net production. This research follows some gui...

Als Maßstäbe für die effiziente Gestaltung moderner Produktionssysteme gelten die Prinzipien und Methoden der Lean Production. In der Literatur zum Thema Lean Production bestehen jedoch drei Defizite: ein niedriger Formalisierungsgrad, das Fehlen einer konsistenten, vernetzten und aufeinander bezogenen Darstellung sowie ein sehr unterschiedlicher und nicht genau definierter Reifegrad bei der 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...

Research Question: Is the lean production philosophy applicable in precast concrete factories to achieve sustainability? If it is, what are the imperfections that can be improved to achieve sustainability? Purpose: This study aims to identify the contribution of the lean concept to achieve sustainability in precast concrete factories. By using appropriate lean principles, the precast concrete i...