Sustainable excellence and continuous improvement approaches in SMEs -- Sustainable excellence and continuous improvement approaches in SMEs -- Achieving environmental excellence through Lean and green in SMEs -- Lean six sigma and sustainability: from total quality to total sustainability --...

Chapter 1: Get into the Entrepreneurial Mindset -- Part 1: Five Lessons from Lean Startup Thinking -- Chapter 2: Start with the Customer in Mind -- Chapter 3: Define and Communicate Mission and Vision -- Chapter 4: Synthesize an Integrative Operating Model -- Chapter 5: Identify Metrics that...

1. The Modern Lean Enterprise -- Part I: Rising of the Digital Economy -- 2. The Displacement of the Economy -- 3. The Post Industrial Factory -- Part II: Lean in Theory -- 4. Principles of Lean Production -- 5. Lean Flow: A Method -- 6. Successful Implementation -- 7. Modern Lean Thinking --...

Basics Lean Production: Challenges -- Waste -- Stabilization -- Flow, Tact and Pull -- Value Stream -- Perfection -- Standardization -- Continuous Improvement -- Assembly -- Manufacturing -- Production Systems -- Advanced Lean Management: Administration -- Product Design/Development -- Planning...

This book explains the implementation of just in time (JIT) production in an industrial context, while also highlighting the application of various, vital lean production tools. Shifting the trade-off between productivity and quality, the book discusses the preparation stages needed before...

1. Introduction -- 2. State of the Art -- 3. Methodical Approach -- 4. Viability -- 5. Simple Viable Systems -- 6. Multilevel Viable Systems -- 7. Viable Business -- 8. Viable Project Business -- 9. Case Studies -- 10. Summary and Outlook.

Valentin Schmidt präsentiert differenzierte Ergebnisse über die Auswirkungen des Konzepts der Lean Production auf die Performance eines Produktionssystems. Mit der vorgestellten Methodik zur Messung der Performance werden sowohl Aussagen über die Effizienz als auch Effektivität einer...

Grundlagen Lean Production: Herausforderungen – Verschwendung – Stabilisierung – Fluss, Takt und Pull – Wertstrom – Perfektion – Standardisierung – Kontinuierliche Verbesserung – Montage – Fertigung – Produktionssysteme -- Vertiefung Lean Management: Administration –...

Lean Production als Weltstandard für Serienfertigung -- Lean Warehouse -- Integrierte Bewertung variantenreicher Einzel- und Kleinserienfertigung in den Bereichen Lean Management und Industrie 4.0 -- Konsequenzen von Industrie 4.0 für das Produktionsmanagement -- Quick Response Manufacturing...

Chapter 1: Lean Management: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Kaizen, Kaikaku and Innovation Management -- Chapter 3: Kata – Behavioural Transformation towards Lean Management -- Chapter 4: Keiretsu Networks -- Chapter 5: Kyouiku – The Learning Enterprise -- Chapter 6: Policy Deployment and Hoshin...