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Lean Manufacturing Implementation in Intermittent Environments: A Framework

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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 Lean Manufacturing relating it to different types of industrial environments. However, guidelines for implementing this paradigm “step-by-step” is missing.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank University of Beira Interior and C-MAST—Center for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies, for giving us all support that was needed. The authors are also pleased to acknowledge financial support from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and FEDER/COMPETE (grant UID/ECO/04007/2013).

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  1. OGMA, Lisbon, Portugal

    Tiago Ferreira

  2. University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

    Tiago Ferreira

  3. 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

    Amilcar A. Baptista

  4. 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

    Susana Garrido Azevedo

  5. 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

    F. Charrua Santos

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Ferreira, T., Baptista, A.A., Azevedo, S.G., Santos, F.C. (2016). Lean Manufacturing Implementation in Intermittent Environments: A Framework. In: Ao, Si., Yang, GC., Gelman, L. (eds) Transactions on Engineering Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1088-0_18

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