Purpose–The advent of recession at the beginning of twenty-first century forced many
organizations worldwide to reduce cost and to be more responsive to customer demands …

Abstract Value Stream Map** is a critical tool when it comes to implement the lean
approach and it has spanned to many sectors in industry. Although previous studies justify …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the well-known value stream map**
(VSM) with a recent tool named waste identification diagram (WID), regarding the capacity of …

Value Stream Map** (VSM) is a very popular tool in lean environments to represent
production flows, map** value stream of a product or family of products, and helps to …

Digital transformation of the timber supply chain is more relevant at present than ever before.
Timber tracking is one example of digital transformation, and can be performed in various …

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Lean principles and methodology should be
applied on a regular basis to the entire process flow of healthcare delivery systems. With …

The foundry industry is responsible for the production of several potentially polluting and
hazardous compounds. One of the major sources of pollution is the use of organic binders …

This paper identifies the key planning stages of a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) in
Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), utilising prominent guidance documentation and then …

This paper considers a fork-join system (or: parallel queue), which is a two-queue network in
which any arrival generates jobs at both queues and the jobs synchronize before they leave …

BACKGROUND The Deventer Hospital in The Netherlands is a 534-bed, medium-size
teaching hospital employing a staff of 1,500. In 2009, the Deventer Hospital had 20,368 …