Using Industry 4.0 Capabilities for Identifying and Eliminating Lean Wastes

This paper conducts a review of the literature to identify associations in operations between Industry 4.0 capabilities such as Additive Manufacturing, Augmented Reality, Autonomous Robots, Big Data, Cloud Computing, IIoT, Simulation, and Systems Integration with commonly identified lean manufacturing wastes Transport, Inventory, Movement, Waiting, Overproduction, Overprocessing, Defects, Underutilized skills. The documents research that links various wastes, including how IIoT can be used reduce defects manufacturing, it mitigate overproduction across industries. There is also evidence big data implementation has positive effects on reducing waiting times process delivery, cloud computing technologies guarantee better estimates for product predicted inventory amounts. finds impacts social aspect by augmented reality tools are increasingly sector improve workers’ knowledge, skills, abilities, simulation software applications capable decreasing operator motion wastes. concludes there clear benefit SMEs using journeys, supports efforts organizations become leaner solutions.