Pool, Arnout; Wijngaard, Jacob; van der Zee, Durk-Jouke - In: International Journal of Production Economics 131 (2011) 1, pp. 194-203
The lean approach is an idealizing improvement approach that has an enormous impact in the field of operations management. It started in the automotive industry and has since been widely applied in discrete manufacturing. However, extensions to the (semi-) process industry have been much slower....