Lean manufacturing: context, practice bundles, and performance
Rachna Shah,Peter T. Ward +1 more
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In this paper, the effects of three contextual factors, plant size, plant age and unionization status, on the likelihood of implementing 22 manufacturing practices that are key facets of lean production systems are examined.About:
This article is published in Journal of Operations Management.The article was published on 2003-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2576 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lean project management & Lean accounting.read more
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Application of fuzzy QFD for enabling leanness in a manufacturing organisation
S. Vinodh,Suresh Kumar Chintha +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study is carried out in an Indian electronics switches manufacturing organisation and fuzzy QFD is used in this project to identify lean competitive bases, lean decision domains, lean attributes and lean enablers for the organisation.
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Integration of management systems: A methodology for operational excellence and strategic flexibility
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on how the integration process unfolds in practice to give rise to a number of socio-technical changes essential to the integration of MSs, including structural, functional, and operational changes.
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Relationship of TQM and Business Performance with Mediators of SPC, Lean Production and TPM
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the relationships among TQM, TPM, SPC and Lean Production practices as a conceptual model and propose relationship between TQMs practices and business performance with mediators of Statistical Process Control (SPC), Lean Production (LP) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) based on extensive review of the literature.
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Empirical assessment of the future adequacy of value stream mapping in manufacturing industries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the current status of the value stream mapping (VSM) method from the user's point of view and address its future sustainability in the context of the ongoing digitalization.
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Lean supply chain practices in the Halal food
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was conducted to assess the possibility of implementing lean practices in the Halal food supply chain, and the barriers to their implementation, which revealed that more than 70 percent of the firms reported that lean supply chain has not yet been implemented in their firm.
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