Purpose This paper aims at examining the impact that COVID-19 pandemic and its related
work implications have on the relationship between lean implementation and service …

The positive results of manufacturing companies adopting lean production practices
certainly impacted the adaptation of Lean Manufacturing principles to the service sector …

Purpose Lean Thinking is an operation management discipline which aims to identify, map
and analyse the activities forming a process to detect “value waste” and outline the most …

Purpose The evaluation of time-based performance is a valued approach in the lean
management thinking which is based on delivering value from customer's perspective. This …

Featured Application The proposal of a conceptual approach towards the application and
evolution of continuous improvement in the context of Industry 4.0. Abstract Continuous …

The objective of this paper is two-fold. First, it aims at empirically validating bundles of Lean
Automation (LA) practices and principles. Second, it verifies their impact on operational …

Purpose The apparel industry of Bangladesh is rethinking lean manufacturing (LM)
deployment because of the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to COVID …

The purpose of this study was to investigate how Lean can be applied in an educational
environment to improve operational processes. The application of the Six Sigma …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the relationship between the implementation of soft
lean practices and organizational resilience development in the service sector …

This paper aims to present an innovative approach to design a Lean Service System in the
India Post service industry using the Simulation method to reduce the system's complexity …