Sökning: "Lean services"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden Lean services.
1. Bringing Together Lean, Simulation and Optimization : Defining a framework to support decision-making in system design and improvement
Sammanfattning : The rapid changes in the market including globalization, the requirement for personalizedproducts and services by the customers, shorter product life-cycles, the exponential growthof technological advances, and the demographical changes, will demand organizations toeffectively improve and design their systems in order to survive. This is the actual paradigmcharacterizing the industrial and service sectors. LÄS MER
2. Lean in the Public Sector : Possibilities and Limitations
Sammanfattning : The demands on efficiency and quality in the public sector have increased over the past few years, which have raised the need for strategies on how the public sector can be improved (Denhardt and Denhardt, 2000). Consequently, the concept of Lean production, or just Lean, have become increasingly spread, especially in health care, but also in government agencies, police, military and social services. LÄS MER
3. Supply chain resilience through quality management
Sammanfattning : The length and complexity of the supply chain tend to increase, rather than diminish, thereby making the supply chain riskier and less predictable and, hence, more vulnerable. At the same time, customers are becoming increasingly demanding. LÄS MER
4. Controlled by Knowledge : A Study of two Clinical pathways in Mental Healthcare
Sammanfattning : Standardisation of professional work is a major policy concern to ensure quality and efficiency of services and a number of hospitals are now focusing on the use of clinical pathways as an important tool to standardise their work. This study sheds light on the processes set in motion when notions of standardisation meet local practice. LÄS MER
5. Towards a Model of Lean Freight Transport Operations
Sammanfattning : Freight carrier operations are increasingly squeezed between intensified competition, a changed market structure, increased customer preferences, financial pressure from the owners and the influences from technological innovations. Despite an extensive work to coordinate individual resources, the results are not satisfactory. LÄS MER