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What is Lean Production

Chapter 3
Handbook of Research on Waste Management Techniques for Sustainability
The initiative focused on eliminating all wastes in manufacturing processes.
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Applying Lean Production and Six Sigma in Global Operations
Kijpokin Kasemsap (Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Thailand)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 31
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9723-2.ch003
Abstract
This chapter aims to apply the Lean Production and Six Sigma in global operations, thus describing the theoretical and practical overviews of Lean Production; Lean Production in sustainable operations; Lean Production in human resource management; Lean Production in health care; Lean Production and environmental management; Lean product development; Lean Management and sustainability; Six Sigma; Six Sigma, learning, and knowledge management; Six Sigma in health care; Six Sigma in service industry; Lean Six Sigma; and the significance of Lean Production and Six Sigma in global operations. The creation of Lean Production and Six Sigma is crucial for modern organizations that seek to serve suppliers and customers, increase business performance, strengthen competitiveness, and acquire regular progress in global operations. The chapter argues that applying Lean Production and Six Sigma has the potential to enhance organizational performance and achieve strategic goals in global operations.
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Blending Green with Lean - Incorporating Best-of-the-Breed Practices to Formulate an Optimum Global Supply Chain Management Framework: Issues and Concerns
Lean manufacturing, lean enterprise, or lean production, often simply, “Lean,” is a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation ofvalue for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination. Working from the perspective of the customer who consumes a product or service, “value” is defined as any action or process that a customer would be willing to pay for.
Published in Chapter: Blending Green with Lean - Incorporating Best-of-the-Breed Practices to Formulate an Optimum Global Supply Chain Management Framework: Issues and Concerns; From: Handbook of Research on Design and Management of Lean Production Systems
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Lean Thinking in Global Health Care: Theory and Applications
The perspective focused on eliminating all wastes in manufacturing processes.
Published in Chapter: Lean Thinking in Global Health Care: Theory and Applications; From: Handbook of Research on Healthcare Administration and Management
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SMED: A Literature Review from 1985 to 2015
A business system for organizing and managing product development, operations, suppliers, and customer relations that requires less human effort, less space, less capital, less material, and less time to make products with fewer defects to precise customer desires, compared with the previous system of mass production. (Marchwinski et al., 2008).
Published in Chapter: SMED: A Literature Review from 1985 to 2015; From: Handbook of Research on Managerial Strategies for Achieving Optimal Performance in Industrial Processes
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Integration of MRP Logic and Kanban Shopfloor Control
A production management paradigm that involves the systematic identification and elimination of non-value adding activities.
Published in Chapter: Integration of MRP Logic and Kanban Shopfloor Control; From: Handbook of Research on Design and Management of Lean Production Systems
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Seru Production System: A Conceptual Model Proposal for the Clothing Industry
It is a production system that targets operational excellence by eliminating the wastes in production environment.
Published in Chapter: Seru Production System: A Conceptual Model Proposal for the Clothing Industry; From: Advances in Intelligent, Flexible, and Lean Management and Engineering
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