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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 58 avhandlingar innehållade orden Lean manufacturing.
1. Lean Implementation : the significance of people and dualism
Sammanfattning : Lean, with its origins at the Toyota Motor Company, is a concept that is known to increase effectiveness in manufacturing. The Lean concept is now argued to be relevant not only in manufacturing but in service and health-care delivery as well. The reported results of Lean implementation efforts are divided. LÄS MER
2. Human Lean : Combining Sense of Coherence and Lean to achieve productivity and health
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to identify barriers to and supportive factors for Lean implementation and to investigate how application of the Sense of Coherence (SOC) theory combined with Lean philosophy may affect health and productivity. The thesis is based on five studies. LÄS MER
3. Lean Transformation of Industrial Work : Understanding What Supports Socially Sustainable Working Conditions During Lean Manufacturing
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of to what extent lean manufacturing transforms industrial work, including psychosocial and physical working conditions, and, to understand how socially sustainable working conditions can be supported in a lean organization.Four studies with different methodological approaches are included. LÄS MER
4. Lean Remanufacturing : Reducing Process Lead Time
Sammanfattning : Remanufacturing is a product recovery option in which used products are brought back into useful life. While the remanufacturing industry stretches from heavy machinery to automotive parts, furniture, and IT sectors, it faces challenges. LÄS MER
5. Senior Management Lean Practice : A Team-Based Approach to Facilitate Learning
Sammanfattning : In order to improve organizational performance, organizations within both production and servicesectors keep turning to the Lean concept with hopes of finding a productive approach to theirchallenges. This tendency appears to remain in spite of reports indicating that the Lean concept isfar from easy to develop, implement and sustain. LÄS MER