Progress in Lean Manufacturing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Leanness Assessment Tools and Frameworks

   • Omogbai Oleghe, Konstantinos Salonitis

   Pages 1-37

3. Lean Supply Chain Management: A Systematic Literature Review of Practices, Barriers and Contextual Factors Inherent to Its Implementation

   • Satie Ledoux Takeda Berger, Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Carlos Manuel Taboada Rodriguez

   Pages 39-68

4. A Literature Review on Lean Manufacturing in Small Manufacturing Companies

   • Laís Ghizoni Pereira, Guilherme Luz Tortorella

   Pages 69-89

5. Application of Structural Equation Modeling for Analysis of Lean Concepts Deployment in Healthcare Sector

   • S. Vinodh, A. M. Dhakshinamoorthy

   Pages 91-103

6. Association Between Lean Manufacturing Teaching Methods and Students’ Learning Preferences

   • Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Rogério Miorando, Aurora Patricia Piñeres Castillo

   Pages 105-128

This book provides some recent research advances in the field of lean manufacturing. Its content is of interest to students in management and production engineering. Topics covered include Just in Time (JIT), Kaizen activities and Critical Metrics. The chapters are written by worldwide well-known experts in the field.

• Just in time (JIT)
• Lean Production
• Lean thinking
• Kaizen activities
• Value stream

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

  J. Paulo Davim

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