The implementation of Lean Production Systems is more than redesigning some production processes. The most seminal change has to be made in people’s knowledge. Otherwise, the changes will not be sustainable. Most implementation processes describe the sequence of necessary tasks but do not regard the integration of knowledge in the organization. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze how knowledg...

introduction: the ultimate objective of scientific activities in organizations and universities is to ensure continuous expansion of these activities and to follow an ongoing knowledge improvement and development trail. hence, this study was performed to investigate the knowledge management score between students of isfahan university of medical sciences. methods: in this descriptive study, the...

Three of the major technical challenges that restricted RFID applications in manufacturing engineering were investigated in this paper. The three challenges are: interference and reader collision, liquids and metal items, and antenna positioning and orientation. The progress in overcoming these challenges and the technical solutions to these barriers were surveyed. Some applications of RFID in ...

The lean philosophy, which denotes business excellence through continuous improvement, originates from Japanese car manufacturer Toyota’s Production System (TPS). An area where lean is not fully explored is remanufacturing, a business that brings used products back to useful life. Remanufacturing is often a more complex process than manufacturing due to uncertainty of process steps/time and par...

Organizations are increasingly implementing process-improvement techniques like Six Sigma, total quality management, lean, and business process re-engineering to improve organizational performance. These techniques are part of a process management system that includes the organizational infrastructure to support the improvement techniques. The knowledge-based view of a firm argues that organiza...

Lean philosophy, which promotes business excellence through continuous improvement, originates from the Japanese car manufacturer, Toyota’s Production System (TPS). An area where lean has not been fully explored is remanufacturing, a process that brings used products back to useful life. Remanufacturing is often a more complex process than manufacturing due to the uncertainty of process steps/t...

Satisfying the requirements associated with environmental concerns and resource efficiency in manufacturing process has become necessary to realize effective production management. Specifically, manufacturers must identify novel working procedures or methodologies enhance friendliness of processes. Green-lean a circular economy are promising schemes achieve this goal. However, compared green-le...

Lean is the automobile manufacturing production system of the Toyota Motor Corporation that many businesses have been trying to reproduce for over 30 years.1,2 To desire the benefits of Lean requires direct extrapolation or some parallel of Toyota’s manufacturing-based production methods of efficiency and process improvement to different work environments. This is not as easy as it may seem, es...