Lean management in apparel manufacturing

Review of low-cost self-driving laboratories in chemistry and materials science: the “frugal twin” concept

“…Here, we draw from the “Pareto principle,” described by Jana and Tiwari 127 as a commonplace case where “80% of the outcomes are controlled or decided by 20% of the activities or factors. For example, 80% of the total profit is generated by 20% of the product categories, or 80% of the maintenance expenses are incurred by 20% of the machines.” Applying the Pareto principle, the last 20% of automation may require 80% of the total effort towards bringing full autonomy to an experiment.…”

Impact of 5S on productivity and quality in an Indo-Japanese auto-component manufacturing company: An empirical study

“…It brings forth the problems of the organization, which remain invisible or ignored for a long time. The available literature shows that it has been used for a variety of purposes by organizations viz, optimizing the utilization of available space [19,20], reducing waiting time in hospitals [21], improving health care performance [22], workplace improvement [23,24], workplace safety [25], employees performance and productivity [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] for cost reduction [34], enhancing the quality of service [35] and energy efficiency [36], creating world-class standards [37,38], implementing of ISO [39], TQM [40], Lean [41], kaizen [42][43][44][45][46], and lean six-sigma [47][48][49][50], in the construction industry [51], textile Industry [52][53][54], and TPM [55,56] for managing libraries [57][58][59], in agriculture industry [60], for project management [61], education and training [62].…”