Improving the Shipbuilding Sales Process by Selected Lean Management Tool

Lean Manufacturing Principles Improving the Targeting Process

Improving Project Management with Lean Thinking?

In the new business economy, project management has become a central way for undertaking several of the business activities. One of the increasing and most significant concerns with projects is that, projects are behind schedule, over budget and show unsatisfactory performance in terms quality and customer satisfaction. In the last few decades the manufacturing industry successfully improved qu...

Improving Coating Processes in the Shipbuilding Industry

Copyright ©1997, Technology Publishing Company process and its interaction with the other aspects of shipbuilding, namely steelwork and outfitting. As a result of the research programme, a technical association was set up at the end of 1996 between Appledore International and International Paint. The aim of this association is to combine the shipyard production and engineering expertise of the ...

When Sales Meet Process Mining: A Scientific Approach to Sales Process and Performance Management

Selling has long been considered as an “art” driven by personal intuition and native sales talent. However, significant changes have occurred over the past 30 years, as a result of technological advances and changing customer expectations. As one answer to these changes, practitioners and scholars have promoted the idea of “sales as a science”, relying on documented, repeatable ways of selling ...

Can a shipyard work towards lean shipbuilding or agile manufacturing?

Lean production is regarded by many as simply an enhancement of mass production methods, whereas agility implies breaking out of the mass-production mould and producing much more highly customized products—where the customer wants them in any quantity. In a product line context, it amounts to striving for economies of scope, rather than economies of scale ideally serving ever-smaller niche mark...