Implementing Lean Manufacturing in Engineer-to-Order Industries
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 May 2022) | Viewed by 9497
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Interests: industrial design; industrial management; lean manufacturing; production engineering, production planning and control; decision support systems
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Interests: optimization; operations management; logistics; production engineering; lean manufacturing; inventory management
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Interests: production planning and control; decision support systems; reliability of production systems; profitability analysis
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Interests: design engineering; optimization; big data analytics, simulation modeling, operations management; logistics; production engineering; lean manufacturing; quality management
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Dear Colleagues,
Traditionally, lean manufacturing has been the focus of low-mix high-volume repetitive manufacturing industries. It is noteworthy that, in these industries, there are numerous studies illustrating success in the implementation of lean manufacturing in terms of reductions of lead times and costs and improved levels of quality.
In the last few years, in recognition of the success of the lean manufacturing approaches in the manufacturing sector, the amount of papers implementing lean manufacturing outside the repetitive production environment, especially in engineer-to-order (ETO) industries, has increased. Examples of these production systems are companies operating in the building and construction phase, machinery-building industry, shipbuilding, aerospace, railway equipment, etc.
However, while lean principles can be applied in any industry, in an ETO environment, the implementation of both methods and tools must be adapted, and often, new ones have to be embraced. Only by conceiving different new methods and tools is it possible to overcome the major constraints to unfold the full potential of lean manufacturing in nonrepetitive manufacturing environments.
With the primary goal of extending the toolbox available to all practitioners in ETO companies, this Special Issue focuses on the development and implementation of new lean manufacturing tools and methods for manufacturing efficiency in ETO industries.
Submissions for the Special Issue include but are not limited to the following topics:
- Implementation of lean principles for lead times and cost reductions in ETO operations;
- Development of new lean methods and tools to support ETO design, maintenance, logistics, and production planning;
- Methods for supply chain management through synchronization of engineering, manufacturing, and on-site installation in Lean-ETO industries;
- Improvement of safety and quality in an ETO enterprise through lean implementation;
- Application of lean manufacturing concepts for redesigning layout in ETO industries;
- Investigation on association between human factors and lean manufacturing to improve productivity in nonrepetitive manufacturing environments;
- Modeling and simulation for lean implementation in ETO industries;
- Review of criticalities and limits in implementing lean manufacturing in ETO industries;
- Industrial applications in practice.
Dr. Leonardo Marrazzini
Prof. Dr. Marcello Braglia
Prof. Dr. Roberto Gabbrielli
Prof. Dr. Marco Frosolini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lean manufacturing
- lean methods and tools
- engineer-to-order
- high-mix/low-volume
- practical implications
- production planning and control
- supply chain management
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