Nowadays, considering the constant changes in customers' demands, manufacturing
systems tend to move more and more towards customization while ensuring the expected …

In the research on production economics, line balancing is an intensively studied
combinatorial optimisation problem. In our previous comprehensive survey on line …

Lean manufacturing has been the dominant approach to industrial improvement since the
1990s when the concept was popularized in The Machine that Changed the World (Womack …

We investigated the synergies and trade-offs between lean management practices and
digital transformation promoted via Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) technologies in current manufacturing …

Purpose This paper proposes an integrated value stream map** (VSM) for a complex
assembly line to improve the leanness of a complex automotive component manufacturing …

Purpose This paper aims to provide empirical evidence regarding Lean Six Sigma (LSS)
practices supported by Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) technologies in heavy vehicle manufacturing …

The impact of Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) and its enabling technologies in the Lean Six Sigma (LSS)
approach have been widely discussed by practitioners and researchers in the last decade …

As Lean Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 aim to create flexible and agile production systems,
integrating Industry 4.0 technologies enables manufacturers to optimize their production …

The approach that associates innovative Industry 4.0 technologies with lean production
principles is called lean automation (LA). This paper aims to explore LA models …

This paper aims to propose a model based on blockchain and cloud computing
technologies to support lean production techniques for industrial supply chain management …