With the ongoing trend of mass-customization and an increasing product variety, just-in-time
part logistics more and more becomes one of the greatest challenges in today's automobile …

Power grids, flexible manufacturing, cellular communications: interconnectedness has
consequences. This remarkable book gives the tools and philosophy you need to build …

Projects work under constant pressure of resource and time constraints. In order to perform
effectively and efficiently, innovation seems to be a significant factor. However, due to the …

Ensuring on-shelf availability is essential for retailers to maintain high service levels for both
in-store and E-Commerce consumers. The performance of this indicator largely depends on …

Purpose–Assembly systems require uninterrupted components' availability to feed
workstations. This paper aims to propose a methodology to help managers in evaluating …

Heijunka is a key-element of the Toyota production system which levels the release of
production kanbans in order to achieve an even production flow over all possible types of …

Lean manufacturing (LM), by providing significant advancement in systems performance
and efficiency, has recently come to a wide use in industrial environments. LM, providing …

Efficient inbound networks in the European automotive industry rely on a set of different
transport concepts including milk runs-understood as regularly scheduled pickup tours. The …

Although a lean focus is widely popular in general manufacturing environments, there are
limited studies that empirically investigate how lean improvement programmes can be …

This article reports a model regarding the structural equations of the impact of the planning
phase and the benefits acquired in the implementation of the kanban system. It begins with a …