SAND CASTING PROCESS IMPROVEMENT USING LEAN PRINCIPLES

Applying Lean Principles to the Crowdsourcing Process

The paper is a research-in-progress that focuses on examining the applicability of lean principles to the crowdsourcing process. While crowdsourcing is seen as an excellent exemplar of open innovation, there is no research that has focused on the wasteful, time-consuming or bloated nature of many crowdsourcing initiatives. This paper attempts to address this gap and examine the applicability of...

Lean Manufacturing Principles Improving the Targeting Process

Lean process improvement in outpatient healthcare systems

This paper considers the migration of lean process improvement methods from hospital systems to outpatient clinics. We review the strengths and weaknesses of a series of lean projects that were conducted in a community mental health center over a four-year period. We consider the evolution of the organization’s lean approaches and project results to identify areas of continuing research that ap...

Productivity Improvement of an Industry by Implementing Lean Manufacturing Principles

The competitive dynamic business environment has forced large and small scale firms to reexamine their methods of doing business. For the last decades the large scale industries have implemented lean in order to sustain in a dynamic environment. But the small scale industries have ignored to implement lean due to economic factor. The benefits of lean implementation in large scale sector now rea...

Applying Lean Principles in Software Development Process – a Case Study

Lean principles have been effective in reducing waste in manufacturing organizations. These principles are now being applied in software development processes. This paper describes lean thinking concepts and the process of applying lean in the technical coding at IMVU a virtual worlds company. It also summarizes lessons learned in the implementation of lean for software development processes.