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Leveraging Industry 4.0 technologies for sustainable value chains: Raising awareness on digital transformation and responsible operations management

Sustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 2189-2202, April 2025.
Abstract Practitioners, policy makers as well as scholars are increasingly focusing their attention on the promotion of sustainable practices that reduce the businesses' impacts on the environment. In many cases, they are well aware that manufacturers and their suppliers are resorting to lean management processes and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies ...
Serena Strazzullo, Livio Cricelli, Ciro Troise, Mark Anthony Camilleri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of Visual Management Cases in Construction by an Analytical Framework from Manufacturing [PDF]

, 2015
Along with the progress of globalization, speed and efficiency have become more critical for any industry than ever before. In this sense, the concept and methods of lean management, promoting these performances, have been deployed from manufacturing ...
Katayama, H., Kinoshita, K., Koskela, Lauri, Murata, K., Nakajima, K., Tezel, Algan, Tzortzopoulos, Patricia   +6 more
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Process Debt: Definition, Risks, and Management

Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Volume 37, Issue 4, April 2025.
We provide a novel framework to categorize process debt, a reference point for practice and future research. The framework defines the interrelations among various elements of process debt and can be used to iteratively analyze and structure PD initiatives, suggest improvements, and provide guidance for decision‐making.
Antonio Martini, Viktoria Stray, Terese Besker, Nils Brede Moe, Jan Bosch   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Execution of Pull System and Constant Work-in-Process Using Kanban System—A Case Study

Engineering Proceedings
This study presents the implementation of a pull-based production system integrated with a constant work-in-process (CONWIP) approach using the Kanban Methodology in a bearing manufacturing industry. A case study on the UN 3213B bottom roller bearing was
Kamal Ukey, Sameer S. Gajghate, Subhash Kumar, Akhya Kumar Behera, Himadri Majumder   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing Sous Vide/Freezing Systems for Ready-Meal omponents [PDF]

, 2005
End of project reportSous vide cooking involves sealing raw or par-cooked food in a vacuumised laminated plastic pouch or container, cooking by controlled heating, rapid chilling and then re-heating for consumption. The chilled storage period is up to 21
Bourke, Paula, Carbonell, Serge, Gormley, Ronan T., O'Beirne, David, Oliveira, Jorge, Tansey, Fergal   +5 more
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Enterprise Agility: Why Is Transformation so Hard? [PDF]

, 2018
Enterprise agility requires capabilities to transform, sense and seize new business opportunities more quickly than competitors. However, acquiring those capabilities, such as continuous delivery and scaling agility to product programmes, portfolios and ...
Barroca, Leonor, Karvonen, Teemu, Sharp, Helen   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Kanban scheduling system

, 2007
Nowadays manufacturing plants have adopted a demand- driven production control system also known as just-in-time production (JIT). This greatly reduces inventory costs because the buffers between the processes act as a blocking mechanism to indicate when production should stop and when eventually it can continue.
Colombo, Christian, Abela, John, 5th Computer Science Annual Workshop (CSAW’07)   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

From Micro to Macro: A Comprehensive Study of Lean Manufacturing Tools in Tanzanian Industries

Engineering Reports, Volume 7, Issue 2, February 2025.
The study aimed to establish the adoption status, drivers, and barriers for Lean Manufacturing for various sizes of manufacturing industries. The study has revealed that adoption status increases with the increase in the size of the industry. Furthermore, drivers and barriers vary based on the size of the manufacturing industry.As the level of the ...
Francis D. Sinkamba, Juma M. Matindana, Mussa I. Mgwatu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kanban applied to construction: a literature review

Construction Economics and Building
Kanban is a process management system originally developed in the automotive industry that is migrating to other fields such as construction. This article provides a literature review of 53 international scientific contributions that focus on the ...
Joaquin Fuentes-del-Burgo, Juan Pedro Ruiz Fernandez, Elena Navarro-Astor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact analysis of flow variability in sizing kanbans

Revista Produção Online, 2014
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of variability flow, advocated by Factory Physics, in sizing Kanban production systems. The variability of flow presupposes that the variability of activities performed by a process is dissipated throughout
Isaac Pergher, Luciano Auad da Silva, Diego Augusto de Jesus Pacheco, Guilherme Luis Roehe Vaccaro   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source