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Implementing and continuity of lean construction using discrete event simulation [PDF]
Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering, 2019 The success of lean principles in manufacturing and the benefits arising from its use is one of the main motivations for adopting lean principles in construction .The lean construction strives for the same goals as lean production, namely to eliminate ...
Shahin Dabirian +1 more
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Thinking Lean in Sonography [PDF]
Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 2020 AbstractThinking LEAN is an informal way to continuously be aware of and look to improve the value of your surroundings. A sonography department has many moving parts or “steps.” Identification and reduction of unnecessary steps may create greater efficiency and value for a process.
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Emergency Care Journal, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic led to massively increased emergency medical services (EMS) activity. The need to decontaminate emergency vehicles after conveying a suspected or confirmed patient to the hospital represented a critical step, slowing the activities ...
Guglielmo Imbriaco, Alfonso Flauto
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Lean Thinking: An Essential Mindset
IEEE Engineering Management Review, 2022 Lean thinking is a fundamental mindset to promote societal transformations and prepare society to properly adopt and use Industry 4.0 technologies. These technologies continue to rapidly develop and have started to evolve to Society 5.0 and Industry 5.0.
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Lean thinking for a maintenance process
Production and Manufacturing Research: An Open Access Journal, 2015 The maintenance process shares significant operating costs in an organisation. Lean thinking can be incorporated into maintenance activities through applying its principles and practices/tools.
Sherif Mostafa +4 more
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Lean construction – LC bajo pensamiento Lean
Revista Ingenierías Universidad de Medellín, 2017 Lean Construction es una filosofía que cambia el pensamiento tradicional de trabajo en el sector construcción por medio de sistemas de gestión innovadores fundamentados en análisis de pérdidas, planificando las actividades con el objetivo de mejorar la ...
Miguel David Rojas López +2 more
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Kvalita Inovácia Prosperita, 2014 Lean principles and methods, originating in a Japanese cultural context, have spread to a large number of companies throughout the world. The aim of this case study research is to identify and compare national cultural aspects that influence Lean ...
Promporn Wangwacharakul +3 more
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Moving-on — Beyond Lean Thinking [PDF]
Lean Construction Journal, 2004 Lean Thinking is currently often positioned as the underlying theory of lean production among practitioners and academics, although its originators, Womack and Jones, seem not to have presented it as a theory. This paper endeavours to analyze whether Lean Thinking can be viewed as a theory of lean production.
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International Journal of Engineering Business ManagementRapid digital technology adoption is reshaping manufacturing worldwide, yet Pakistan’s textile industry faces challenges – outdated practices, high innovation costs, and limited lean operations – that constrain competitiveness and sustainability ...
Masooma Zahra +3 more
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MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 This paper introduces the lean production theory and the application of lean production technology preparation system in related enterprises, put forward own views on a series of problems existing in the preparation of M company's production technology ...
Ma Ming, Lu Tao
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