Lean production has become an integral part of the manufacturing landscape as its link with superior performance and its ability to provide competitive advantage is well accepted among academics and practitioners. Lean production helps producers in overcoming the challenges organizations face...

How do local labour market structures, in tandem with workforce dispositions and attitudes, influence the way multinational companies localise their standardised work and production systems? This article investigates the conflict-ridden factory regime of a lean automotive plant in provincial...

Die Produktionsnivellierung nach dem Vorbild der Heijunka- Methode bekommt sowohl in der wissenschaftlichen Betrachtung als auch der industriellen Anwendung eine zunehmende Bedeutung. Nur durch die konsequente Anwendung der Methodik bekommt ein PULL-System seine eigentliche Effizienz. Die...

The purpose of this paper is to identify success factors in human resource management during the transition process to Lean Production. Using case study research in the aeronautics industry, the results show a series of explanatory factors that are then grouped into main factors depending on the...