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 …

The concept of lean manufacturing was developed for maximizing the resource utilization
through minimization of waste, later on lean was formulated in response to the fluctuating …

To facilitate the implementation of lean production, practitioners and researchers have
suggested an array of critical success factors (CSFs). However, despite a broad consensus …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the non-value-adding activities (NVAs) of
core making process and to eliminate them through the standardization-of-work (SW) …

Nowadays, manufacturing firms are pressured by governments, non-governmental
organizations and customers to operate in a sustainable manner. Although lean practices …

Abstract Academic literature on Lean Manufacturing (LM) is widely available. However, due
to its fragmentation, the contribution of LM from practical and academic perspectives is …

This study explored contextual or determining factors and their impacts on lean
manufacturing in small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in food-processing …

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 …

Lean manufacturing and six sigma methodologies have been widely used in a large number
of companies worldwide. However, many companies have found it difficult to successfully …

Purpose This paper aims to identify, analyze and categorize the major readiness factors for
implementing Lean Six Sigma (LSS) in health-care organizations using total interpretive …