Impact of Industry 4.0 Concept on the Levers of Lean Manufacturing Approach in Manufacturing Industries

Abstract

Industrial companies looking for permanent performance are facing challenges of reducing production costs, reducing customer delivery delays and improving their quality products, this lead them to improve their responsiveness and flexibility to meet the varying needs of customers. To cope with these constraints, several industrial companies have adopted the Lean Manufacturing (LM) concept, based on the Toyota production system, to reduce wastage according to a methodical and structured approach that has given this proof for several years, this approach currently finds its limits, since it is based on static data, while a dynamic approach, with real-time data on customer needs and production performance, will readjust the levers of Lean Manufacturing to improve its efficiency. This paper has been aimed to show that the concept Industry 4.0 incarnates the lean Manufacturing approach by feeding it by real-time data and a real-time analysis of Big Data in a Cyber Physical Production System (CPPS), in order to improve decision-making and readjust in real time the levers of the Lean Manufacturing approach

Industry 4.0 and Lean Manufacturing – a systematic review of the state-of-the-art literature and key recommendations for future research

“…With 'I4.0 technologies enhancing the capability of lean tools', authors have followed two different approaches. Firstly, they propose how specific individual I4.0 technology can incarnate the Lean Manufacturing approach, such as big data to improve decision-making, continuous improvement, value addition, and waste reduction (Ghouat et al, 2021 and, IoT-enabled data analytics to enhance the decision support system (Abd , Cobots for lean automation (Rossi et al, 2020), Cloud Computing (CC) with ML to enhance the Kanban system and propose Cloud Kanban (Shahin et al, 2020), and integrated Lean Value Stream which integrates seven I4.0 technologies (Tortorella et al, 2020b). Secondly, the authors have identified how combining different I4.0 technologies can impact each lean tool's delivery performance (Pereira et al, 2019;Rosin et al, 2020;Saxby et al, 2020;Valamede et al, 2020).…”

“…d) I4.0 technologies enhance lean tools' capability. e) Big data improves decision-making, continuous improvement, value addition, and waste reduction (Ghouat et al, 2021 and. f) I4.0 enhances the lean tool's capability and concludes Total Productive Maintenance .…”

Framework for Integrating Lean Thinking with Industry 4.0: Way Ahead for Entrepreneurs in Indian MSME’s

“…Studies conducted to understand lean and Industry 4.0’s interdependence suggest that a lean production system is a prerequisite for Industry 4.0 (Dombrowski & Richter, 2018). The interdependence between the two supports organisations to remain competitive and stay ahead on the business curve, more so in the case of MSMEs, where the barriers of entry for competition and availability of alternate technology are very high (Ghobakhloo & Fathi, 2019; Ghouat et al, 2021). Thus, systematic analysis and review of existing literature indicate that lean manufacturing and Industry 4.0 are not mutually exclusive and can be integrated seamlessly to manage operations successfully.…”

Assessment of the Potential Impact of Industry 4.0 Technologies on the Levers of Lean Manufacturing in Manufacturing Industries in Morocco

“…The objective of this work is to assess the potential of Industry 4.0 technologies to support the LM approach by supplying it with real-time data [20,21], in a representative sample of companies established in Morocco, figure 2.…”