Lean Manufacturing Implementation in Intermittent Environments: A Framework
This chapter suggests a framework for the implementation of Lean Manufacturing in intermittent production environments—Job shop. The environment faced by organizations request the adoption of more efficient management models and practices in order to incr
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Abstract This chapter suggests a framework for the implementation of Lean Manufacturing in intermittent production environments—Job shop. The environment faced by organizations request the adoption of more efficient management models and practices in order to increase their competitiveness. In this context, Lean philosophy, in particular Lean Manufacturing has proven to be an extremely powerful management paradigm. However, the Lean philosophy when is applied incorrectly may turn out to be a failure for the organizations. In this sense there are several factors that can hamper the correct development of Lean Manufacturing within organizations such as (i) lack of commitment by top management; (ii) lack of qualified and graduates employees without know how on this paradigm; (iii) lack of guidelines on the application of tools and methodology of Lean Manufacturing. This research shows that over the past few years, tools have been developed within
T. Ferreira OGMA, Lisbon, Portugal e-mail: [email protected] T. Ferreira University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal A.A. Baptista (&) C-MAST Center for Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, University of Beira Interior, Calçada Fonte do Lameiro, Ed. I das Eng, Elect. Dept., 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal e-mail: [email protected] S.G. Azevedo Department of Management and Economics, CEFAGE-UBI—Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Estrada do Sineiro, 6200-209 Covilhã, Portugal e-mail: [email protected] F.C. Santos Electromechanical Department, C-MAST Center for Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, University of Beira Interior, Calçada Fonte do Lameiro, Ed. I das Eng, Elect. Dept., 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 S.-I. Ao et al. (eds.), Transactions on Engineering Technologies, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1088-0_18
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Lean Manufacturing relating it to different types of industrial environments. However, guidelines for implementing this paradigm “step-by-step” is missing. Keywords Automotive industry manufacturing Lean philosophy
Case study Framework Job shop Lean
1 Introduction Organizations with complex production processes, such as intermittent or job shop process, report an increased difficulty in the implementation of Lean Manufacturing (LM). One barrier observed in different job shop industries is the lack of a guiding tool with the objective of implementing the lean manufacturing in this kind of environment. One of the barriers faced was the difficulty to identify where to apply a policy of continuous improvement and the other the kind of LM’ tools that should be used. Obviously in this environment, as in the others, a strategy is needed to implement the lean philosophy as well as a training plan to promote the involvement of collaborators. As a result, this chapter shows the need for a new framework to guide the implementation of the LM [1]. Organizations are encouraged to produce with h
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