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Lean Automation enabled by Industry 4.0 Technologies Open
The Lean Production paradigm has become the major approach to create highly efficient processes in industry since the early 1990s. After the sudden end of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) era, which finally was doomed to fail du…
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An integrated lean and green approach for improving sustainability performance: a case study of a packaging manufacturing SME in the U.K. Open
Competitive landscape, informed consumers and stringent regulations have forced many manufacturing
\nsmall- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to focus on operational efficiency along with sustainability
\nissues in recent years. While ma…
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Production Line Analysis via Value Stream Mapping: A Lean Manufacturing Process of Color Industry Open
Lean Manufacturing (LM) is a business strategy that was developed in Japan. The main role of lean manufacturing is to determine as well as to eliminate the waste. Companies implement LM to keep their competitiveness over their competitors …
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Lean thinking in the highways construction sector: motivation, implementation and barriers Open
The interest in lean thinking in the UK’s civil construction industry is on the rise. The research presented in the paper evaluates the adoption of lean thinking in the highways construction sector by investigating 7 motivation factors, 20…
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A new value stream mapping approach for healthcare environments Open
Hospitals worldwide are giving a growing emphasis to the application of lean concepts in the healthcare sector, commonly known as 'lean healthcare'. A fundamental tool that allows such implementations is the value stream mapping (VSM). The…
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Lean 4.0: A New Holistic Approach for the Integration of Lean Manufacturing Tools and Digital Technologies Open
Due to the highly dynamic and competitive environment, organizations are led to rethink their processes and strategies. In the industrial field, Lean Manufacturing (LM) is widely recognized as a traditional approach to eliminate waste in t…
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Lean healthcare in developing countries: evidence from Brazilian hospitals Open
The present study evaluates how five sectors of two Brazilian hospitals have implemented lean healthcare concepts in their operations. The main characteristics of the implementation process are analyzed in the present study: the motivation…
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Development of a conceptual model for lean supply chain planning in industry 4.0: multidimensional analysis for operations management Open
[EN] A lean supply chain (LSC) is a set of organizations directly linked by upstream and downstream value streams between processes that work collaboratively to reduce costs and waste. Currently, supply chains (SCs) have been put to the te…
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Lean Service: Reassessment of Lean Manufacturing for Service Activities Open
After decades of lean principles implementation in manufacturing companies, there is no debate about its benefits on waste elimination and efficiency improvement. Service organizations, a growing stake of the global economy, are committed …
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DMAIC-based approach to sustainable value stream mapping: towards a sustainable manufacturing system Open
The research for this article was built upon the discussion concerning sustainable value stream mapping (Sus-VSM), which had recently emerged towards advancing sustainable manufacturing systems. Research on this sustainable-oriented lean t…
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Continuous improvement through "Lean Tools": An application in a mechanical company Open
This article results from a work carried out in a company that is dedicated to the production of mechanical equipment. Throughout the production process, with the support of Value Stream Mapping (VSM), it was possible to detect several was…
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Designing lean value streams in the fourth industrial revolution era: proposition of technology-integrated guidelines Open
Despite the envisioned interrelations, the way Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies can influence the design and implementation of lean value streams is still unknown and little empirical evidence is found in the literature. This article aims …
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Lean six sigma methodologies improve clinical laboratory efficiency and reduce turnaround times Open
Background Organizing work flow is a major task of laboratory management. Recently, clinical laboratories have started to adopt methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma and some successful implementations have been reported. This study used Le…
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A Decade of Lean in Healthcare: Current State and Future Directions Open
Over the last decade, many healthcare organizations have adopted lean thinking to reduce wastages and to improve flow efficiency in the patient flow processes. But there is limited research done on understanding the sequence to be followed…
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Lean meets Industrie 4.0 – a practical approach to interlink the method world and cyber-physical world Open
Lean management and “Industrie 4.0” have often been considered as separate subjects. Lean management, as a methodical approach, aims at realizing a continuous value stream with less waste by means of continuous optimizations and standardiz…
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Industry 4.0-Based Real-Time Scheduling and Dispatching in Lean Manufacturing Systems Open
Lean manufacturing is one of the most popular improvement agents in the pursuit of perfection. However, in today’s complex and dynamic manufacturing environments, lean tools are facing an inevitable death. Industry 4.0 can be integrated wi…
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Industrie 4.0 – Competencies for a modern production system Open
Industrie 4.0 promises new digital solutions to optimize the entire value stream in manufacturing systems. Existing production systems are often based on the continuous improvement philosophy of lean management. New opportunities for devel…
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Implementation of 5S in a plastic bag manufacturing industry: A case study Open
Two of the eight wastes included in the lean manufacturing concept are ‘Waiting’ and ‘Motion’. They waste precious operating time and slow down the manufacturing cycle. The major purpose of this study is to use 5S, a lean manufacturing str…
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Logistics services and Lean Six Sigma implementation: a case study Open
Purpose This paper aims to analyze the application of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) framework for supporting continuous improvement (CI) in logistics services. Both the lean philosophy and the Six Sigma methodology have become two of the most impor…
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Lean Manufacturing and Ergonomic Working Conditions in the Automotive Industry Open
With the new market scenario along the years the great automobile multinational companies are leaving for the challenge of reducing production costs. This production system is the Lean Manufacturing a model that serves to facilitate compet…
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Applying SMED methodology in cork stoppers production Open
Organizations are increasingly required to have a high level of quality and flexibility in production. In order to remain in the market and become competitive, the working methods practiced must be reliable and efficient. The present proje…
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The Role of Value Stream Mapping in Healthcare Services: A Scoping Review Open
Lean healthcare aims to manage and improve the processes in the healthcare sector by eliminating everything that adds no value by improving quality of services, ensuring patient safety and facilitating health professionals’ work to achieve…
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Applying Value Stream Mapping in Manufacturing: A Systematic Literature Review Open
Value Stream Mapping is a critical tool when it comes to implement the lean approach and it has spanned to many sectors in industry. Although previous studies justify its use in manufacturing sector by identifying previous cases within the…
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Green value stream mapping approach to improving productivity and environmental performance Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new methodology called overall greenness performance for value stream mapping (OGP-VSM). Using value-added concepts, this approach has the potential to integrate, measure, control and imp…
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Improving the Productivity of Sheet Metal Stamping Subassembly Area Using the Application of Lean Manufacturing Principles Open
Companies frequently find techniques and tools to enhance productivity and quality for success in the long-term in order to maximize competitive advantage. To date, lean manufacturing principle is one of the successful improvement concepts…
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Designing a Future Value Stream Mapping to Reduce Lead Time Using SMED-A Case Study Open
Many manufacturers struggle with improving productivity, producing the right products or services at the right place and meeting on-time delivery. To survive in today's era competitive world, manufacturers need to find new ways to reduce t…
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Improvement of Productivity and Quality in the Value Chain through Lean Manufacturing – a case study Open
The competitive, dynamic and changing environment in which companies operate today, pose new challenges that allow them to grow and maintain themselves over time, aspects such as customer satisfaction, innovation, and social responsibility…
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Towards a conceptual framework for value stream mapping (VSM) implementation: an investigation of managerial factors Open
Despite the relatively extensive literature on VSM, limited reflection has been reported regarding how managerial proceedings actually put VSM into practice. This research therefore investigates these issues as part of the overall lean phi…
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Lean Healthcare Tools for Processes Evaluation: An Integrative Review Open
Several health services have used lean healthcare to seek continuous improvement of their processes. Therefore, it is important to investigate the evidence available in the literature about the most used lean tools in the health area to re…
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Value stream method 4.0: holistic method to analyse and design value streams in the digital age Open
The value stream method (VSM) is a well accepted, widely used and holistic method for mapping, analyzing and designing value streams in order to reduce waste. However, the new, promising opportunities of digitization and Industry 4.0 to in…