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Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production Through the Supply Chain

MacDuffie, John Paul; Helper, Susan - 2002

Honda of America has developed a comprehensive approach to teaching the principles of leanproduction to its suppliers. The centerpiece of these efforts is a program called BP (for "Best process","Best Performance", "Bs Practice"), in which a crossfunctional team of personel born Honda and...

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Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production Through the Supply Chain

Helper, Susan; MacDuffie, John Paul - 2002

Hon& of America has developed a comprehensive approach to teaching the principles of leanproduction to its suppliers. The centerpiece of these efforts is a program called BP (for ?Best process?,?Best Performance ?, ?Bs Practice?), in which a crossfunctional team of persomel born Honda and...

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Lean Production : Werkzeuge zur Realisierung

Binner, Hartmut F. - 1993

INHALT:l. Einleitung und Standortbestimmung2. Japanische Wertvorstellungen3. Inhalte der Lean Production4. Fertigungssegmentierung5. Informationsmanagement mit CIM- und Logistik-Komponenten6. Logistikgerechte Strukturen der Lean Production7. Realisierung der Lean Production8. Zusammenfassung

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Factors Influencing Contractor Performance in Indonesia: A Study of Non Value-Adding Activities

Alwi, Sugiharto; Hampson, Keith D.; Mohamed, Sherif A. - 2002

Non value-adding activities can be defined as activities that consume time, resources or space but do not add project value. This term is classified as waste in the language of Lean Production. Waste can significantly affect the business performance and productivity of contracting organisations....

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The integration of human resource and operation management practices and its link with performance: A longitudinal latent class study

de Menezes, Lilian M.; Wood, Stephen; Gelade, Garry - 2010

This paper reviews the literature on the association between lean production and performance. From this, propositions on the integration and evolution of operation and human resource management practices associated with the lean production concept are developed. Using 24 years of data on the use...

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Der praxisorientierte Weg zum schlanken Produktionssystem

Straub, Markus; Schiepp, Thomas - 2010

Viele kleine und mittlere Unternehmen haben kein eigenes Produktionssystem, jedoch wird die Notwendigkeit mit steigender Unternehmensgröße unerlässlich. ImVordergrund stehen Ziele wie eine flache Hierarchieebene und schlankeProzessketten. Ein Produktionssystem stellt weiterhin sicher, dass...

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The influence of decentralized bargaining in the introduction of continuous improvement in Australian automotive component companies

Gough, R; Macintosh, M; Park, B - 2005

The study examines the nature and impact of Japanese idea of continuous improvement (CI) at 14 automobile components companies in Australia. It assesses the extent to which CI practices inform management systems and work organization. The study is focused on the degree to which decentralized...

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Developing a BPI framework and PAM for SMEs

Khan, Z; Bali, R; Wickramasinghe, N - 2007

Purpose - The last decade has seen much interest in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from successive UK Governments highlighting the importance of this sector to the wealth-creating process of the UK economy. World-class manufacturing (WCM) is a set of methodologies that are used by...

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Zweistufiges Taktphasenmodell zur Steigerung der Prozesseffizienz in der Unikatfertigung auf Basis der Lean Production

Gruß, Renata - 2010

Hoher Wettbewerbsdruck in Verbindung mit der Heterogenität der Kundenwünsche lassen vermuten, dass zukünftig mit einer verstärkten Fokussierung auf Einzelfertigung gerechnet werden kann. Die Relevanz dieser Fertigungsart in verschiedenen Branchen nimmt zu. Deshalb ist es erforderlich, dass...

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Understanding Australia’s industry-level productivity dynamics: from measurement to econometric estimation

Zheng, Weiquan - 2009

is unique in two respects. First, it takes measurement issues seriously. The emphasis of the study is placed on the … production economics and economic measurement. Second, the study decomposes the measured MFP growth into the effects of the ‘true … study are consistent with Australia’s System of National Accounts, an economic measurement framework used by the Australian …

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