Lean Automation enabled by Industry 4.0 Technologies

By Dennis Kolberg, Detlef Zühlke. 2015

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Abstract The Lean Production paradigm has become the major approach to create highly efficient processes in industry since the early 1990s. After the sudden end of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) era, which finally was doomed to fail due to its unrulable complexity of the required automation technology, the Lean approach was successful because of its high effectiveness by reducing complexity and avoiding non-value-creating process steps. Today, the term Industry 4.0 describes a vision of future production. Many people are at least skeptical or even hostile towards this new approach. This position paper gives an overview over existing combinations of Lean Production and automation technology, also called Lean Automation. Furthermore, it discusses major Industry 4.0 corner stones and links them to the well-proven Lean approach. Examples of combining both are smart watches for supporting the Andon principle or Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) for a flexible Kanban production scheduling.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Industry 4.0: How it is defined from a sociotechnical perspective and how much sustainability it includes – A literature review (2020, background): “The optimization of the value chain is assumed to be an outcome of higher autonomy in production (Kolberg and Zühlke, 2015).”
Implementation of Industry 4.0 and lean production in Brazilian manufacturing companies (2018, background): “2.3 Lean production and Industry 4.0 The recent integration between LP practices and Industry 4.0 technologies has been denoted as Lean Automation (LA), which aims for higher changeability and shorter information flows to meet future market demands (Kolberg and Zühlke 2015).”
Towards Lean Production in Industry 4.0 (2017, methodology): “Additionally, a Smart Product could contain Kanban information in order to control production processes what was already presented by SmartFactoryKL at Hannover Messe 2014 in Germany [36].”
Industry 4.0 and lean manufacturing practices for sustainable organisational performance in Indian manufacturing companies (2019, background): “Integration of I4 T and LMP will not only expedite the development of lean systems in manufacturing organisations but also reduce the perceived risk associated with the high implementation costs of I4 T (Kolberg and Zühlke 2015).”
Impacts of Industry 4.0 technologies on Lean principles (2019, methodology): “…Li and Savkin (2018) Jidoka Automatic stops Andon Internet of Things Kolberg and Zühlke (2015); Mrugalska and Wyrwicka (2017) Internet of Things Kolberg and Zühlke (2015) Person-machine separation Autonomous robots Porter and Heppelmann (2014); Kermorgant (2018) Error-proofing Internet of…”
The link between Industry 4.0 and lean manufacturing: mapping current research and establishing a research agenda (2018, unknown): “The new possibilities enabled by Industry 4.0 have reignited some of the research within this field (Kolberg and Zühlke 2015; Kolberg, Knobloch, and Zühlke 2017).”
The industrial management of SMEs in the era of Industry 4.0 (2018, background): “Many researchers have already shown that Industry 4.0 can be implemented using an iterative and continuous improvement approach such as Lean manufacturing (Denkena et al. 2014; Kolberg and Zühlke 2015).”