Defining and developing measures of lean production

By Rachna Shah, Peter T. Ward. 2007

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Mechanical Engineering, Strategy and Management

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Model of efficient and sustainable improvements in a lean production system through processes of environmental innovation (2013, methodology): “This study develops a methodology that remarks on the common aspects of a sustainable and efficient approach and shows how a business can reach increased profits by employing this inter-relationship instead of an individual approach (Shah and Ward, 2003, 2007).”
Lean: A failed theory for public services? (2013, background): “They are a means to an end rather than the end itself (Shah and Ward, 2007).”
Contingency research in operations management practices (2008, background): “…stream a number of studies have found evidence of strong interactions between several OM practices (e.g., Cua et al., 2001; Flynn et al., 1999; Kaynak, 2003; Shah and Ward, 2003, 2007), suggesting that besides their individual effects, their mutual interactions significantly affect performance.”
Lean Manufacturing, Non-Financial Performance Measures, and Financial Performance (2009, background): “important elements representative of the lean production system (see Papadopoulou and Ozbayrak, 2005; Shah and Ward, 2007).”
Systematic review of Lean and Six Sigma approaches in higher education (2020, methodology): “Taiichi Ohno of Toyota studied Ford’s practices and developed the Toyota Production System (Shah & Ward, 2007).”
The effect of lean production on financial performance: The mediating role of inventory leanness (2012, methodology): “More specifically, lean production is assessed using a survey instrument developed by Shah and Ward (2007) which consists of a set of 10 distinct lean practices: supplier feedback, supplier JIT, supplier development, customer involvement, pull manufacturing, continuous flow manufacturing, setup…”
Implementation of Industry 4.0 and lean production in Brazilian manufacturing companies (2018, methodology): “The second part of the questionnaire assessed the level of LP practices adoption based on Shah and Ward’s (2007) assessment model, which comprises 41 questions related to ten operational constructs.”
Lean and the working environment: a review of the literature (2012, background): “The definition of lean as a socio-technical system (Shah and Ward, 2007; Spear and Bowen, 1999) also clearly indicates that no such linear causal relationship between lean and the working environment should be expected.”
Leveraging fitness and lean bundles to build the cumulative performance sand cone model (2015, methodology): “We proposed that fitness establishes the foundation for layering the development of bundles of more specific, targeted practices, based on the work of Ferdows and Thurnheer (2011) and Shah and Ward, 2003 and Shah and Ward, 2007.”
Lean in UK Government: internal efficiency or customer service? (2013, background): “Although Lean is sometimes simply associated with the elimination of waste (Shah and Ward, 2007), it could be argued that Womack and Jones, regarded by most as the originators of the term ‘Lean Thinking’, captured a dual customer and process-focused approach in their five principles of Lean (Womack…”
Industry 4.0 and lean manufacturing practices for sustainable organisational performance in Indian manufacturing companies (2019, methodology): “The measurement items used for LMP were developed using Shah and Ward (2007) and Sanders, Elangeswaran, and Wulfsberg (2016).”
A methodology for effective implementation of lean strategies and its performance evaluation in manufacturing organizations (2013, background): “It can be seen that many researchers had discussed and proposed some of the more commonly implemented lean manufacturing tools (Shah and Ward, 2007; Karlsson and Ahlstrom, 1996; Detty and Yingling, 2000; Sánchez and Pérez, 2011; Motwani, 2003; Bhasin and Burcher, 2006).”
Lessons from seru production on manufacturing competitively in a high cost environment (2017, background): “The literature on lean and agile manufacturing is summarized by Narasimhan et al. (2006) and Shah and Ward (2007).”
Evaluation of the Relation between Lean Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Sustainability (2019, neutral): “Increase process performance Shah and Ward, 2007 [37]; Sezen, et al.”
Information and digital technologies of Industry 4.0 and Lean supply chain management: a systematic literature review (2020, background): “Lean Management (LM) is an efﬁciency-oriented socio-technical management system whose main purpose is to eliminate any source of waste through the simultaneous reduction or minimisation of the sources of internal and external variability (Womack, Jones, and Roos 1990; Shah and Ward 2007).”