How Lean transformation affects scheduling

Tokola, Henri; Niemi, Esko; Kyrenius, Pekka

doi:10.1016/j.rcim.2015.09.012

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“…Tokola, Niemi and Kyrenius (2015) [73] studied how the scheduling of production changes when four conditions of Lean paradigm implemented. First, when the flow time is emphasized, the objective of the scheduling changes from utilization to a short flow time.…”

Section: Implementation and Impact Of Lean Manufacturingmentioning

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Lean manufacturing: Trends and implementation issues

Duraković

Demir²,

Abat³

et al. 2018

PEN

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Many manufacturing cost reduction initiatives have been introduced over past three decades including lean manufacturing. Waste reduction and efficiency improvement are the main objectives of this initiative. It is developed from a set of tools and techniques and can fit nicely in cost focus or cost leadership competitive advantage strategies. But, keeping competitive advantage under the market circumstances are getting harder with growth of production quantity and product diversity. Therefore, paper's focus is lean manufacturing implementation trends and issues within the various manufacturing sector. Successes and failures of implementation of lean manufacturing in some industries are discussed. It was found that lean principles are good source of competitive advantage, it is applicable for many industries and its expansion and discussion are significantly progressing. The biggest threat in implementing lean is lack of understanding the concept but those who engage consultants were more successful.

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Section: Implementation and Impact Of Lean Manufacturingmentioning

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Lean manufacturing: Trends and implementation issues

Duraković

Demir²,

Abat³

et al. 2018

PEN

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“…Clearly, it is not easy to persuade everyone; often the way of thinking must be changed, and one must be emphatic and open-minded. For instance, the utilization centric mindset, which has been a firm belief until now, had to shift to a systematic and lean way of thinking (Tokola et al. , 2017).…”

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“…(2018) focusing on the benefits that value stream mapping (VSM) brings. Advantages of the roadmap are showed also in the study carried out by Tokola et al. (2017) “How lean transformation affects scheduling” highlighting the importance of shifting from a “utilization-centric” mindset to “Lean Thinking”.…”

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“…A similar roadmap has been applied by Kumar et al (2018) focusing on the benefits that value stream mapping (VSM) brings. Advantages of the roadmap are showed also in the study carried out by Tokola et al (2017) "How lean transformation affects scheduling" highlighting the importance of shifting from a "utilization-centric" mindset to "Lean Thinking". While moving toward lean thinking, WLC is proven to work well in the case of high customization, particularly in MTO companies (Costa and Portioli-Staudacher, 2021).…”

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Implementing workload control through lean-based project in MTO-MTS environment

Kundu

Rossini

Costa

2022

JMTM

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Purpose Due to high customization, companies, which used to follow the make-to-stock (MTS) strategy, are now adopting the make-to-order (MTO) strategy along with MTS in order to cope with high variability in customer demand. Although lean is quite popular in general, its advantage in MTO-MTS environment is quite rare. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to show the benefits of lean techniques in this environment.Design/methodology/approach A popular furniture company in Italy is selected for the longitudinal action research and as a part of the lean project, workload control (WLC) is deployed in the selected company. Data were collected through on-site interviews, potential areas of improvement were identified and then suitable countermeasures were proposed and adopted.Findings This study reveals that the implementation of lean techniques including WLC in a furniture company reduces the throughput time and improves the inventory turnover.Research limitations/implications This research is based on a single company. Additional empirical studies can help to refine our proposition.Practical implications The paper shows the practical implementation of WLC as a part of the lean project in MTO-MTS environment. It provides the practitioners and consultants with the way of implementing lean techniques in companies that are planning to adopt MTO-MTS hybrid strategy.Originality/value This is the first paper that aims to assess the efficiency of the adaption of WLC based on lean principles in a company using MTO-MTS hybrid strategy. Hence, the results are highly valuable for similar companies, especially when are facing transition situations (e.g. from MTS to MTO-MTS).

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“…Lean thinking studies organization's value streams, removing all non-value adding activities, and constantly aligning all respective activities to the external and internal customers. The results, and particular characteristics of any lean system, are short lead-times, reduced requirements for human and financial resources, as well as products that are particularly suited to fulfil customer requirements [1][2][3]. Lean thinking has been studied for approximately two decades with main focus on manufacturing processes optimization [4,5].…”

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Application of Lean Methods into the Customised Product Development Process of Large Power Transformers

2020

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The study conducts research on lean product development (PD) methodology and presents a case study of its practical application into a specific one-of-a-kind development of large power transformers. The demonstrated framework is the result of a 5-year intensive research that led to an extensive transformation of a traditional PD environment into a highly efficient process according to lean principles. Paper explains how lean PD integrates with robust, concurrent and smart design strategies in highly individualized PD business. A generalized framework of PD and design process renovation is presented, comprising three main fields of interest: Process & Tools, People, and Knowledge. A direct consequence of implied renovation are significant savings. Case-study company cut down engineering changes by 32 % in three year test period and experienced performance improvement between 25 % and 83 % across designated process indicators.

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How Lean transformation affects scheduling

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Lean manufacturing: Trends and implementation issues

Lean manufacturing: Trends and implementation issues

Implementing workload control through lean-based project in MTO-MTS environment

Application of Lean Methods into the Customised Product Development Process of Large Power Transformers

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