Search for dissertations about: "lean"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 472 swedish dissertations containing the word lean.

2. 11. Lean Transformation of Industrial Work : Understanding What Supports Socially Sustainable Working Conditions During Lean Manufacturing

   Author : Malin Håkansson; Lotta Dellve; Teresia Nyman; Svend Erik Mathiassen; Per Sederblad; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Organizational Ergonomics; Work Design; Physical Ergonomics; Lean Production; Manufacturing; Working conditions; Work Content Analysis; Musculoskeletal Pain; Technology and Health; Teknik och hälsa;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of to what extent lean manufacturing transforms industrial work, including psychosocial and physical working conditions, and, to understand how socially sustainable working conditions can be supported in a lean organization.Four studies with different methodological approaches are included. READ MORE

4. 12. Towards a Lean Integration of Lean

   Author : Christer Osterman; Anders Fundin; Tomas Backström; Lars Sörqvist; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Lean Integration Flexibility Management; Working Life Studies; arbetslivsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Integrating Lean in a process has become increasingly popular over the last decades. Lean as a concept has spread through industry into other sectors such as service, healthcare, and administration. The overwhelming experience from this spread is that Lean is difficult to integrate successfully. READ MORE

5. 13. Respect for People : Developing alternative understandings and relationships to ethics, leadership, and culture in Lean implementations

   Author : Mia Ljungblom; Thomas Taro Lennerfors; Maria Fredriksson; Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Culture; Developmental Leadership; Ethics; Leadership; Lean Management; Real Lean; Respect; Respect for people; Virtue ethics; Dygdeetik; Etik; Kultur; Ledarskap; Lean Management; Respekt; Respekt för männskan; Utvecklande Ledarskap; Äkta Lean; Engineering Science with specialization in industrial engineering and management; Teknisk fysik med inriktning mot industriell teknik;

   Abstract : Successful Lean implementation is a combination of both technology and culture, using bothkey principles of continuous improvement (CI) and respect for people (RFP). However, manyorganizations fail to implement Lean and critical factors in this failure are leadership, cultureand the lack of RFP. READ MORE

6. 14. Bringing Together Lean, Simulation and Optimization : Defining a framework to support decision-making in system design and improvement

   Author : Ainhoa Goienetxea Uriarte; Amos H. C. Ng; Matías Urenda Moris; Stewart Robinson; Högskolan i Skövde; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; lean; simulation; optimization; decision-making; Production and Automation Engineering; Produktion och automatiseringsteknik;

   Abstract : The rapid changes in the market including globalization, the requirement for personalizedproducts and services by the customers, shorter product life-cycles, the exponential growthof technological advances, and the demographical changes, will demand organizations toeffectively improve and design their systems in order to survive. This is the actual paradigmcharacterizing the industrial and service sectors. READ MORE

7. 15. Toward Lean Remanufacturing : Challenges and Improvements in Material and Information Flows

   Author : Jelena Kurilova-Pališaitienė; Erik Sundin; Bozena Poksinska; Magnus Wiktorsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

   Abstract : Remanufacturing is an environmentally sound material recovery option which is essential to compete for sustainable manufacturing. The aim with remanufacturing at a majority of companies is to prolong physical product performance by delivering the same or betterthan-original product quality. READ MORE