Industry 4.0 technologies have attempted to transform current industrial settings to a level
that we have never seen before. While at the same time, prevailing applications of Lean …

Lean management (LM) has attracted the interest of scientists and practitioners since 1990,
when Womack et al.(Womack, JP, Jones, DT and Roos, D.(1990). The Machine that …

Purpose: Lean Manufacturing is widely regarded as a potential methodology to improve
productivity and decrease costs in manufacturing organisations. The success of lean …

Purpose–The advent of recession at the beginning of twenty-first century forced many
organizations worldwide to reduce cost and to be more responsive to customer demands …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of Lean methodology
through an exhaustive literature review, and its implications and application in the service …

The design structure matrix (DSM), also called the dependency structure matrix, has become
a widely used modeling framework across many areas of research and practice. The DSM …

Exploring barriers in lean implementation | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies
Expert Briefings Open Access Publish with us Advanced search Exploring barriers in lean …

There is a growing need for operations management models that contribute to the
continuous improvement of company processes, among them we highlight lean …

Purpose This paper aims to develop an initial understanding of the Lean Six Sigma
methodology since its inception and examine the few Lean Six Sigma dimensions as a …

The increasing use of lean production (LP) by companies from several sectors has
substantially increased the amount of publications and different emphases on the subject …