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Manufacturing Management, 2022
How automated inventory storage and handling is at the heart of modern lean manufacturing
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How automated inventory storage and handling is at the heart of modern lean manufacturing
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Lean management, lean principles, lean manufacturing
Technológ, 2023My article is focused on one main topic, the topic of lean management. I describe lean management in the article, in basic definitions, principles, and contexts. I do not deal in detail with individual elements and aspects of lean management in the article, because that was not the goal of the article.
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Lean everywhere [lean manufacturing]
Engineering & Technology, 2009It is hard to talk to manufacturers without getting embroiled in a discussion on lean techniques. Lean is not a panacea, but one of a suite of tools that companies can use to improve performance.
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LEAN MANUFACTURING IMPLEMENTATION
2000Many companies have implemented lean production in the last decade. Lean production describes a manufacturing system that uses less resources to make a company’s products. The term lean production was first used in the book, The Machine that Charged the World (Womack, Jones, and Roos, 1990), to describe the Toyota Production System.
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Lessons in lean [lean manufacturing]
Manufacturing Engineer, 2004This paper examines whether lean manufacturing really works based on the experience of several companies that have implemented lean principles. A study conducted by The Manufacturing Foundation, a non-profit organization that researches into manufacturing issues and provides policy advice for government, found that there are strong common ...
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Joined up lean [lean manufacturing]
Manufacturing Engineer, 2005This paper suggests that there is an opportunity for a number of lean interventions across an enterprise to be linked together to add greater value. Because the lean approach to business is centered upon delivering customer value using the least resource, it is important to identify these resources, with associated skills and capabilities, as these are
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2018
Lean has become a new mantra in today's manufacturing sector. In this millennium, companies are facing a challenge to be economically competitive in manufacturing. Many of them have realized that the old style of mass manufacturing is no longer successful.
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Lean has become a new mantra in today's manufacturing sector. In this millennium, companies are facing a challenge to be economically competitive in manufacturing. Many of them have realized that the old style of mass manufacturing is no longer successful.
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2018
This chapter is focused on the more visible part of JIT, providing a detailed description of a set of basic lean manufacturing tools for a successful JIT implementation. The Lean tools explored in this chapter are: 5S, Standardized Work, SMED—Single Minute Exchange of Die, and Kanban System. The chapter is enriched with a case study used to explain the
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This chapter is focused on the more visible part of JIT, providing a detailed description of a set of basic lean manufacturing tools for a successful JIT implementation. The Lean tools explored in this chapter are: 5S, Standardized Work, SMED—Single Minute Exchange of Die, and Kanban System. The chapter is enriched with a case study used to explain the
José Luís Quesado Pinto +4 more
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