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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Lean thinking"”.
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Enabling cultural shifts : an enterprise approach toward lean thinking
… within the organization, they chose to adopt Lean Thinking as a method to streamline and simplify activities, connections and flows. Lean Thinking, while often viewed as a set of tools (value stream mapping, andon cords, kanbans, and others), involves the harmony between principles, culture …
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Opportunities for lean thinking in aircraft flight testing and evaluation
The application of Lean principles and practices has been shown to help aerospace companies reduce waste and maximize value to help meet the changing demands of the market. The most visible area of influence has been manufacturing, where great strides have been made in cost and cycle time …
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An Application of Lean Thinking to the Furniture Engineering Process
… of the engineering process and the proposal of a lean future state value stream map (VSM). Results from the current state VSM show, that the value-added ratio of the current engineering process is only 26%. Several engineering steps present deficiency such as the processes of creating drawings, …
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Applying the Lean Thinking in Health Economics to Improve the Healthcare Delivery
… proposes a process improvement framework using Lean philosophy and associated tools already successfully implemented in both the manufacturing and service sectors. With the aim of end-to-end process improvement, the proposed framework follows a scientific process investigating the transactional …
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Lean Thinking For Lead-Time Reduction And Efficient Knowledge Creation In Product Development
… process and Product Development (PD) process, so lean tools have to be customized to deliver results in the later domain. The main focus of this dissertation is to extend them to manage and improve the PD process in order to develop the product faster while improving or at least maintaining the …
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How to use lean thinking to improve knowledge management performance of manufacturing supply chains
… knowledge management activities and use Lean Principles as guidance to improve knowledge management performance in manufacturing supply chains. In order to achieve this aim, this research examines the causal relationships between Knowledge Management Processes (KMPs), 4 Lean-KM Wastes and …
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The integration of lean thinking and manufacturing business improvement methods within the aerospace supply chain
… that one particular improvement concept is lean manufacture. This review carried out an investigation into the lean environment and assessed many applications of the concept. The literature survey also highlighted some restrictions to lean thinking. It is been proposed how some of these …
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A mixed-methods investigation of evidence-based Lean Thinking practice to Kaizen academic processes for Private Higher Education Institutes in Singapore
… exploring, and proposing evidence-based Lean Thinking practice in the Course Planning and Delivery Process (CP&DP) in Singapore Private Higher Educations Institutes (SPHEIs). There is no such evidence about the current level of Lean Thinking practice in SPHEIs. Starting from the gap that …
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Utilizing Knowledge Transfer to Promote Management of Countervailing Risks in Value Stream Analysis
… latest process improvement techniques such as Lean Thinking. They use these techniques to allow them to better perform their organizational purposes through the elimination of waste and non-value added steps. Personnel performing these modifications need to account for potential outcomes and …
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Evaluating airline-transit cooperation in airport rail and remote check-in services : a strategic approach for increased ridership
This thesis applies Lean Principles and Practices to the public transportation services sector. It is an innovative approach since the area of knowledge is most actively used in the production and manufacturing field. Other theories, Stakeholder Theory, Systems Theory, and Transaction Cost …
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Expanding Markets and Industrial Practices for Thermally Modified Wood
… final objective involved the implementation of Lean thinking to the manufacturing process of TMW with the goal of improving the process with a direct impact on cost and waste reductions. Three companies were used as case studies for the production process. The implementation of Lean thinking in …
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Application of lean management in the provisioning of textbooks to Eastern Cape public schools
… in the Eastern Cape (EC) public schools. Lean Thinking and Value Stream Mapping (VSM) philosophies, a derivative of the Toyota Production System (TPS), was applied to evaluate the effectiveness of the current process and propose improvements as measured by reduced time and more effective …
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Designing the lean enterprise performance measurement system
… system required for the transformation to the lean enterprise and its management. Arguments are made from the literature that successful deployment of the lean practices, across three different stages of the evolution of lean thinking, requires a supporting performance measurement system. The …
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Operational initiatives in the food industry
… to investigate the use & applicability of lean thinking concepts in the food industry & to develop a strategy for the productive adoption of lean thinking in the food industry. In . order to investigate the application of lean manufacturing concepts in the food industry, a lean …
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Assessing stakeholder salience through the view of lean enterprise transformation
… elements of both structure and behavior. Using a Lean enterprise thinking framework, this thesis employs stakeholder theory to explain enterprise dynamics and decision making. The thesis uses Enterprise Architecture (EA) theory, developed at MIT's Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI), for the Lean …
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A new glide path: re-architecting the Flight School XXI Enterprise at the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence
… the training process. The principles of lean thinking provided a guide for the remaining recommended actions to improve the performance of the enterprise. These recommendations included reducing the batch size of students per course, achieving continuous flow by canceling initial course, …
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The barriers to lean implementation in high mix, low volume manufacturing - a marine diving engineering case study
The principles of lean thinking have been widely applied but lean implementing is notoriously complex and challenging. This case study takes place at Unique Hydra (Pty) ltd (Hydra), a high mix, low volume (HMlV) manufacturer specialising in marine diving engineering. lean implementation at Hydra …
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Prioritization and integration of lean initiatives with theory of constraints
The principles of lean manufacturing have taken hold in a number of manufacturing firms as a means of achieving operational excellence through continuous improvement. Womack and Jones have suggested a generalized process for lean transformation in their 1996 book, Lean Thinking. A key element of …
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