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Is Lean Production Really Lean? The Design of a Lean Production System
1993It is often argued that the success of Japanese manufacturing is due to the basic requirements of lean production with a minimum of fixed costs as concerns the production inputs. E.g. there should be a minimum of investment in machine capacity, that means the minimum of unproductive set-up and idle times, no buffers for materials or finished products ...
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Going Forward: A Lean Way to Design
HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2013That's not what I meant." Generally speaking, this phrase does not mean the end of the world, and the affected parties can quickly come to terms and remedy the misunderstanding. In the world of design, how- ever, such a phrase can imply disaster for the designer and client, if not resolved early enough in the process of a building project.
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Lean Application: The Design Process and Effectiveness
2019Taiwan’s trade mainly depended on exports, and the design of export products would affect the demand for clients to place orders. As the size of an enterprise and the number of the product categories it produced changed, the size of its design department was also affected. This study adopted the viewpoint of Toyota Production System (TPS) to re-explore
Tsung-Nan Wang, Yu-Hsiu Hung
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A Lean Management Tool for Housing Design
2012The construction sector is facing complex challenges due to the actual and future strong increase of energy performance requirements and the slower but net change of other users’ needs and habits. Some forward-looking construction companies, in Italy, are already trying to improve their standard solutions to improve their market placement and ...
MALIGHETTI, LAURA ELISABETTA +4 more
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Lean Manufacturing Cell Design
Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 1996Abstract In the lean production company, the manufacturing engineers are responsible for designing, building, testing, and implementing the manufacturing equipment for the manufacturing cells. These cells are designed for flexibility — they can handle changes in product design as well as external customer demand.
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Lean Additives in a Service Factory: A Design Science Approach
Technovation, 2021Ganesh LS, Vijaya Sunder M
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