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Lean production and disability

International Journal of Social Economics, 2001
Since the early 1980s, Dutch productivity rates have been driven by a shift from traditional mass production firms to lean production. It slightly counteracted the generally acknowledged procyclical productivity rates; instead of working less hard during the recession of the 1980s and 1990s, employed labor had to work harder. Because the combination of
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A measure of lean [lean production]

Manufacturing Engineer, 2006
The importance of aligning any lean initiatives with a company's business objectives is explored. Business purpose always has two aspects - what needs to be done better to satisfy customers and what needs to be done better to survive and prosper as a business.
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Lean production

2011
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Is Lean Production Really Lean? The Design of a Lean Production System

1993
It 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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Is Lean Production Really Lean?

1993
It 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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The path to lean success [lean production]

Manufacturing Engineer, 2006
Spanish manufacturer of industrial electrical appliances, Fagor Industrial, redesigned its production system to enable lean flows by means of waste reduction. Using the value stream mapping (VSM) technique to analyze and plan the improvement project, Fagor decided to make technological changes to its sheet metal cutting line.
I. Serrano, R. de Castro, A. Laca
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Oltre la Lean production: il Lean product development

2011
introduction to the main concepts of Lean product ...
ROSSI, MONICA, TERZI, SERGIO
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From Lean Production to Lean Construction

2014
The last few decades have witnessed three major phases or paradigm shifts of industrial production in the modern world (Womack et al. 1990; Smith 1992). These phases are generally concluded as craft production, mass production and lean production. Shook (1998) highlighted that the concepts such as mass production and lean production reflect ways of ...
Shang Gao, Sui Pheng Low
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