The lean approach is an idealizing improvement approach that has an enormous impact in the field of Operations Management. The approach is basically very process oriented and there was less attention first for planning and control, this being the profession of dealing with all kind of non-ideal manufacturing and supply-chain restrictions. During the last years, however, planning and control hav...

modern business organizations have appreciated the significance of having competitive advantage through the delivery of continuous improvement towards the customers, and being knowledge-oriented. indisputably, knowledge management (km) plays a key role in the success of customer relationship management (crm). in this regard, customer knowledge management (ckm) is a newly developed concept that ...

Modern business organizations have appreciated the significance of having competitive advantage through the delivery of continuous improvement towards the customers, and being knowledge-oriented. Indisputably, Knowledge Management (KM) plays a key role in the success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). In this regard, Customer Knowledge Management (CKM) is a newly developed concept that ...

The proponents of lean production have pointed to the positive effects of the work organization on employees in terms of autonomy, enhanced skills and empowerment mainly by their participation into the continuous improvement of work process. But studies that have examined this issue suggest that the increase in autonomy is not sufficient to compensate for increases work intensity. Participatory...

With increased international competitiveness in the automotive industry, came the concern of the companies save costs and lower production costs. For this purpose many ways are designed to reduce costs and waste of raw materials and reduce activities that do not aggregate value to manufacturing processes. In the early XVII appears the manufacturing system, which processes were hard with little ...

The new product development (NPD) is the process by which a new product idea is conceived, investigated, taken through the design process, manufactured, marketed and serviced. In Automotive Engineering these related to the product realization process (PRP) which consists of five phases: "Plan and Define Program", "Product Design and Development", "Process Design and...

 This paper looks at, within the context of lean production, how and in what ways employees participate in environmental improvements. The paper uses data from an automobile plant well known for its participative work structures, New United Motor Manufacturing (NUMMI), to look more closely at the dynamics of worker participation in environmental management (i.e. management of pollution ...

Lean and Agile Project Management: For Large Programs and Projects p. 37 When Agile Is Not Enough p. 44 Refactoring the Organization p. 48 A Journey to Systemic Improvement (Abstract) p. 52 Complexity vs. Lean, the Big Showdown (Abstract) p. 53 Lean Product Development and Innovation Lean Product Development and Innovation Track Summary p. 55 A Tentative Framework for Lean Software Enterprise R...

Lean manufacturing is a production strategy for organizational effectiveness focusing on waste reduction and improving productivity through application of various tools. This paper attempts to find out the reasons for sparse adoption of the concept in Indian manufacturing organisations through a cross-sectional survey study. The study highlights knowledge and understanding levels of Indian mana...

Although the term World Class Manufacturing (WCM) is known long ago, it finds out its applicationeven today especially in production organizations. WCM still has one major advantage over thecurrently well-known and widespread concepts for process optimization such as lean production, JIT,six sigma, SCM, and TQM. While these concepts are generally focused on the achievement of speed<...