Designing lean value streams in the fourth industrial revolution era: proposition of technology-integrated guidelines

Tortorella, Guilherme Luz; Pradhan, Ninad; Anda, Enrique Macias de; Martinez, Samuel Trevino; Sawhney, Rapinder; Kumar, Mukesh

doi:10.1080/00207543.2020.1743893

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“…Similar studies evaluating the potential interfaces between Industry 4.0 technologies and lean manufacturing practices are now being published regularly (e.g. Rosin et al 2019;Tortorella et al 2020).…”

Section: The Interaction Between Lean Manufacturing and Digitalisationmentioning

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The complementary effect of lean manufacturing and digitalisation on operational performance

Buer

Semini

Strandhagen

et al. 2020

International Journal of Production Research

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The most recent trend manufacturers have embraced to seek operational performance improvements is the use of a wide range of digital technologies typically associated with Industry 4.0. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between such technologies and the long-established lean manufacturing domain, and how they, together, influence operational performance. Based on data from a cross-sectional survey of manufacturing companies, this study investigates the relationships between the use of lean manufacturing, factory digitalisation, and operational performance using hierarchical multiple regression analysis. While simultaneously controlling for the effects of production repetitiveness, company size, and length of lean manufacturing implementation, the findings show that both lean manufacturing and factory digitalisation individually contribute to improved operational performance. Furthermore, it is found that when used together, they have a complementary (or synergistic) effect that is greater than their individual effects combined. These research findings provide both theoretical and practical insights into how lean manufacturing and factory digitalisation affect the operational performance of manufacturing firms. In light of the upcoming fourth industrial revolution, these findings suggest that lean manufacturing is not obsolete but rather is more important than ever in order to reap the benefits from emerging technologies and translate them into improved operational performance.

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Section: The Interaction Between Lean Manufacturing and Digitalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The complementary effect of lean manufacturing and digitalisation on operational performance

Buer

Semini

Strandhagen

et al. 2020

International Journal of Production Research

163

146

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“…Therefore, it is concluded here that agility is an important aspect of I4.0 industrial infrastructure. For organization to successfully integrate with the I4.0 environment, implementing agility and technologies will go hand in hand [51].…”

Section: Industry 40 and Agilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The AR and VR technologies can significantly enhance the organizational agility [112]. The AR and VR automate the manufacturing and supply chain activities and help a company to create more collaboration with other stakeholders [51]. Controlling activities through AR and VR eliminates a lot of waste, which makes the process leaner.…”

Section: Augmented and Virtual Realitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational Agility in Industry 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review

Mrugalska

Ahmed

2021

Sustainability

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Agility is the dynamic capability of an organization which helps it to manage a change and uncertainties in the environment. The purpose of this research is to review the literature from the perspective of agility in Industry 4.0. This paper systematically reviews 381 relevant articles from peer-reviewed academic journals in the period of the last five years. The results show that agility is important for an organization to adopt Industry 4.0 technologies as it helps companies to cope with the changes that arise along with the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies. Further, it also indicates that by adopting Industry 4.0 technologies, companies can significantly enhance their agility capability into various aspects with different technologies. The technologies which enhance the agility are: smart manufacturing, internet of things, cyber-physical system, big data and analytics and cloud computing. On the other hand, important aspects of agility include supply chain, workforce, information system, facilities, management, manufacturing and technology agility.

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“…Lean manufacturing can be deemed as one of the most meaningful contributions in the history of operations management [32,33]. This philosophy has turned into a widespread approach because of its high efficiency gain in enterprise production and logistics [27,34,35].…”

Section: Lean Manufacturing and Its Key Conceptsmentioning

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Stories Told by Publications about the Relationship between Industry 4.0 and Lean: Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Salvadorinho

Teixeira

2021

Publications

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Industry 4.0 and its application in the business has been the focus of attention by the academy, for its ability to establish principles of flexibility and connectivity along the shop floor. Meantime, because of a lean wave in the 1990’s, most of the western industry adopted principles, techniques and tools of lean production, whose results were quickly captured, guaranteed its adoption worldwide. Thus, with a view to turning traditional manufacturing companies into smart companies, it is essential to preserve the existing system and find ways for the two concepts (Lean and I4.0) to come together. This study was conducted based on a systematic literature review, using the Scopus database. The PRISMA process was the method used to select the articles. Finally, to analyze and discuss the results, the bibliometric analysis of the articles and content analysis were adopted. The results point to a greater impact of I4.0 technologies on lean, since it was perceived that I4.0 technologies give to lean tools a more dynamic way of working, accelerating information sharing processes and improving production manager’s and operator’s decision making. In the perspective of lean’s contribution to I4.0; however, there is little practical and theoretical application, thus the actual contribution is still somewhat blurred.

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Designing lean value streams in the fourth industrial revolution era: proposition of technology-integrated guidelines

Cited by 75 publications

References 79 publications

The complementary effect of lean manufacturing and digitalisation on operational performance

The complementary effect of lean manufacturing and digitalisation on operational performance

Organizational Agility in Industry 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review

Stories Told by Publications about the Relationship between Industry 4.0 and Lean: Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

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