Lean Engineering for Global Development
This edited book discusses lean production as a suitable platform for global development by developing systems and products in a quicker, costless and sustainable way and educate people for a lean consumption. Lean thinking principles are totally and syne
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ean Engineering for Global Development
Lean Engineering for Global Development
Anabela Carvalho Alves Franz-Josef Kahlen Shannon Flumerfelt Anna Bella Siriban-Manalang •
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Editors Anabela Carvalho Alves ALGORITMI R&D Center, Department of Production and Systems University of Minho, Campus of Azurém Guimaraes, Portugal Shannon Flumerfelt Oakland University Rochester, MI, USA
Franz-Josef Kahlen Kahlen Global Professional Solutions Gronau, Germany Anna Bella Siriban-Manalang Resources, Environment and Economics Center for Studies Makati City, Philippines
ISBN 978-3-030-13514-0 ISBN 978-3-030-13515-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13515-7
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Preface
Lean Thinking for Sustainable Development Currently, it is a fact that Lean Production (LP) is a popularized term. A Google search by this term returned 183,000,000 results (0.45 s). Nevertheless, for the scientific community what matters are the publications in the most famous and indexed databases. Therefore, a simple search by the same term in all fields in the Scopus database returned 11,860 documents and 2853 results as a topic from all databases in the Web of Science. This could exponentially increase if other similar designations such as Lean Manufacturing and/or Lean Management, were used. Nevertheless, the authors point here is to show that Lean production comes to stay and it is not a “fashion word” or “common sense” as some academy teachers seems to continue in believing and refuse to credit Lean Production as a scientific subject. Thus, the
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