A value stream oriented organisational structure following the Lean philosophy, often is seen as contradictory to the concept of self directed teamwork (SDT). Whereas SDT is broadly defined by the takeover of responsibilities for a certain range of management tasks by a team within defined boundaries Lean is defined as an approach of continuous improvement for process design and development wit...

In type 2 diabetes (T2D) macrophage dysfunction increases susceptibility to infection and mortality. This may result from the associated decreased plasma concentration of arginine, an amino acid that plays an important role in immunity. In vitro, increasing arginine availability leads to an improvement in macrophage function; however, arginine supplementation in diabetic obese patients may be d...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the application of business process reengineering (BPR) and benchmarking principles to redesign an undergraduate course on BPR to achieve continuous improvements. The principles are applied on a course on BPR in the curriculum of engineering management (EM) program at Stevens Institute of Technology. The EM program aims to provide the student...

Experience-based approaches to software development promise to capture critical knowledge from software projects that can be used as a basis for continuous improvement of software development practices. Putting these ideas into practice in the quickly evolving discipline of software engineering has proven elusive. Techniques and tools are needed that help software practitioners apply past knowl...

We aim to identify and analyse the key success factors of sustainable lean implementation investigate changes in management accounting performance measurement systems after implementation. four large, publicly traded Serbian companies that have implemented lean. To introduce diversity into our sample we choose from different industries with competitive organizational characteristics. use a mult...

For more than 20 years the enterprises of Russian Federation have been in- troducing concept lean production. The article analyzes systematic work organizations to improve efficiency and competitiveness production systems through introduction tools methods production; results «Efficient Region» project implemented by regions in cooperation with «Rosatom» State Corporation «Increasing labor prod...

This paper aims to present ways streamline production by implementing methods of analysis and continuous improvement an important company in the Romanian car market, based on technology which produces various components, especially wiring used many manufacturers cars. The processes within are designed from a lean ergonomic point view, taking into account latest trends specific field. Supported ...

The term “lean manufacturing”, (Womack et al., 1990), refers to the generalization of the Toyota Production system (TPS), also called Just-in-Time (JIT). One feature of such system is the reduction of costs through elimination of waste (Sugimori et al., 1977). Waste or muda (in Japanese) is anything that does not add value to a product. Elimination of muda is done by means of continuous improve...

Received: 10 December 2012 Revised: 24 September 2013 Accepted: 06 December 2013 Abstract This paper presents an approach aimed at creating business ontologies for knowledge codification in company. It is based on the principles of ontological engineering and cognitive psychology. Ontologies that describe themain concepts of knowledge are used both for knowledge creation and codification. The p...

BACKGROUND Lean and Six Sigma are business management strategies commonly used in production industries to improve process efficiency and quality. During the past decade, these process improvement techniques increasingly have been applied outside the manufacturing sector, for example, in health care and in software development. This article concerns the potential use of Lean and Six Sigma in im...