Recent years have shown an increasing use of lean manufacturing (LM) principles and tools in several industrial sectors. Already a wellestablished management philosophy, it has shown numerous successful applications even outside production environments. This work presents the application of some LM tools, and the corresponding shift in philosophy, in two Portuguese companies of the food and bev...

Current products in the market are customer oriented. Customers demand for low priced products in minimum possible time of production. To achieve competitiveness and to stay ahead in the business, manufacturers adopt lean manufacturing strategies. Lean principles are focused on elimination of wastes, streamlining the processes there by reducing cost and product delivery time. Lean concepts are ...

Consulting engineering is a business service industry, which relies heavily on project teamwork in producing knowledge for its professional service products. Engineering practices and knowledge areas encompass mainly civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, buildings physics, project and construction management, which are typically pictured as knowledge-intensive activities. Such practices...

Knowledge is recognized as a crucial resource in today’s Knowledge Intensive Organizations. Creating effective Knowledge Management systems is one of the key success factors in Process Improvement initiatives like the CMMI, SPICE etc. This contribution aims to provide a starting point for discussion on how to design a Knowledge Management System to support System Engineering activities. After m...

System Engineering (SE) is becoming increasingly knowledge intensive. Knowledge Management is recognized as a crucial enabler for continuous process improvement in engineering projects. Particularly, capitalization and sharing, of knowledge resulting from experience feedback are valuable asset for SE companies. In this paper, we focus on the formalization of engineering experience aiming at tra...

nowadays, customers ask for high quality products with less cost. so, the organizations such as iran transfo rey are looking for a solution to survive longer. implementation of lean production can lead the company to its target. the main goal of this research is evaluating the readiness of iran transfo rey co. for performing the lean production system through dimensional analysis model. in this...

Lean is a systematic approach to identify and eliminate non-value-added activities or waste through continuous improvement process. While traditional lean manufacturing focuses on the activities within a single organization, lean supply chain consists of the same processes, but it views these processes over multiple organizations. This research addresses an important yet under-studied area – le...

Background: As health care struggles to meet increasing demands with limited resources, Lean Management is becoming a popular management approach. More is known about operational aspects of Lean application than about the socio-technical aspects such as how Lean interacts with teamwork and the psychosocial work environment. It is also unclear why and how organizations adopt Lean. Aim: This proj...

A microplot experiment was conducted in soybean–wheat cropping system at New Delhi during 2010-11 and 2011-12 to study the effect of continuous or cyclic tillage, viz., conventional tillage (CT) and zero-tillage (ZT) and residue management of either soybean (SR) and/or wheat (WR) on yield performance and soil physico-chemical properties. The experiment was laid out in randomized block desi...