Although the term Operational Excellence (OE) has been widely applied over the past few
decades, its meaning is still ill-defined. This issue may be especially aggravated after the …

Purpose The study proposes to determine the impending challenges to lean integration with
Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) in manufacturing that aims at achieving desired operational performance …

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the current state of research to identify the link between
Lean Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) technologies to map out different research …

With the evolution of Industry 4.0, some problems related to inefficient digitalization become
clearer in organizations. To minimize these problems, implementation of the lean philosophy …

This article explores the literature on lean management (LM), Six Sigma (SS), Industry 4.0
(I4. 0) and their relationship. A systematic literature review (SLR) combined with bibliometric …

Over recent decades, the increasing competitiveness of markets has propagated the term
“lean” to describe the management concept for improving productivity, quality, and lead time …

Purpose Over the past few decades, lean manufacturing has focussed on being customer-
centred and now Lean 4.0 technologies have made it possible for manufacturers to have a …

The fourth industrial era, known as 'Industry 4.0'(I4. 0), aided and abetted by the digital
revolution, has attracted increasing attention among scholars and practitioners in the last …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the prominent research constituents in the
domain of integration of Lean manufacturing and Industry 4.0 techniques and analyze the …

Purpose Following an increasing interest in the area that merges digital/I4. 0 technologies
and business models (BMs), which led to a proliferation of articles in this domain, the …