The principles of Lean Production have enabled organisations in themanufacturing and service sectors to significantly improve their competitiveness. The application of Lean principles, derived from the Toyota Production System has enabledmany organisations to simultaneously improve productivity, quality and customer service. Similar benefits have been achieved through the application of informa...

The innovative potential of the organization is increasingly becoming one key factors competitive advantage. philosophy lean manufacturing has a well-established reputation for its focus on process efficiency and therefore often applied in various areas innovation. This broad growing applicability resulted large body literature purpose this article to conceptualize an integrative view Lean Inno...

In the last few decades, lean techniques have been developed for removing with waste in manufacturing. More recently, lean is used outside the manufacturing context as well. This article focuses on using lean thinking for reducing waste in administrative services, i.e., business services with information as input and output. This article delivers three innovations in this field: 1) a lean appro...

Occupational accidents are wasteful and non-value-adding (NVA) events in any form of production system. Since Lean principles aim to reduce NVA elements of work processes, it follows that safeguarding construction workers from occupational hazards would be a natural outcome of the Lean Construction ideal of waste elimination. A literature review of the conference proceedings of the Internationa...

This article deals with the specification of basics Lean Manufacturing principles that should help to designing lean production solutions for own applications. The 9 principles discussed in this paper are: continuous flow; lean machines simplicity; workplace organization; parts presentation; reconfigurability; product quality; maintainability; ease of access; and ergonomics. The presented artic...

The data presented in this article are related to the research article "Integrating ergonomics and lean manufacturing principles in a hybrid assembly line" (Botti et al., 2017) [1]. The results refer to the application of the mathematical model for the design of lean processes in hybrid assembly lines, meeting both the lean principles and the ergonomic requirements for safe assembly work. Data ...

The recent introduction and successful application of Lean Thinking in health is generating a belief that continuous improvement (a product of Lean) can be delivered in the context of health care, as long as key organisational principles are in place. This paper offers case studies to illustrate where Lean methods are being introduced into a primary care commissioning organisation and are deliv...

An urgent need in American health care is improving quality and efficiency while controlling costs. One promising management approach implemented by some leading health care institutions is Lean, a quality improvement philosophy and set of principles originated by the Toyota Motor Company. Health care cases reveal that Lean is as applicable in complex knowledge work as it is in assembly-line ma...

CONTEXT Our cytology laboratory, like many others, is under pressure to improve quality and provide test results faster while decreasing costs. We sought to address these issues by introducing new technology and lean principles. OBJECTIVE To determine the combined impact of the FocalPoint Guided Screener (GS) Imaging System (BD Diagnostics-TriPath, Burlington, North Carolina) and lean manufac...

The objective of the research is to examine and develop new methods and tools for management of knowledge in Lean Product development. Lean Product development attempts to apply lean philosophy and principles within product development process. Special emphasis is given to the so-called Set Based Lean Design principles. Such product development process requires innovative methodologies and tool...