Skip to Content

10 Results Found

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,009 Views
9 Pages

Leveraging Lean Six Sigma to Optimize the U.S. Air Force Safety Reporting Process

  • Daniel L. Arango,
  • Alexandr Sokolov,
  • Saroj Raut and
  • Niamat Ullah Ibne Hossain

4 November 2024

This report applies Lean Six Sigma methodologies to dissect, document, assess, and improve the process for reporting safety incidents and mishaps in the United States Air Force (USAF). The current USAF policy requires supervisors to report all incide...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Industrial, Manufacturing, and Process Engineering (ICIMP-2024))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,080 Views
25 Pages

A Process-Mapped Quality Control Framework for Structural Steel Fabrication

  • Dario Šokić,
  • Zlata Dolaček-Alduk and
  • Mario Galić

19 August 2026

This paper proposes a process-mapped quality control framework for structural steel fabrication as a proof of concept for integrating normative requirements into a unified operational workflow. The study addresses the fragmentation of quality require...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction: Innovations in Design, Engineering, and the Circular Economy, 2nd Edition)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,807 Views
19 Pages

20 January 2023

Sustainability is a difficult topic, and education systems are generally complicated, including multiple levels as well as diverse organizations and actors. This dual complexity, which affects both sustainability and higher education systems, poses g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Teaching and Learning in Education for Sustainability)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,311 Views
10 Pages

Modelling the Implementation of a Sustainable Development Strategy through Process Mapping

  • Ioana Miruna Tătaru,
  • Elena Fleacă,
  • Bogdan Fleacă and
  • Radu D. Stanciu

Industry 4.0 implies sustainable production by providing green products created through environmentally responsible processes. This paper aims to analyze the two main business processes responsible for energy innovation in a telecommunications compan...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 14th International Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Engineering—INTER-ENG 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,970 Views
22 Pages

Redesign of the Curing Area of the Tire Manufacturing Process

  • Florin Stîngă,
  • Irina Severin,
  • Ioana Alina Mitrache and
  • Elena Lascu

25 August 2020

In this study, the production efficiency of a company’s manufacturing flow decreased, and therefore specific improvement actions on the tire manufacturing process were implemented. Additionally, the process improvement plan started with a deepe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
14,827 Views
21 Pages

Lean Healthcare Tools for Processes Evaluation: An Integrative Review

  • Letícia Bianchini de Barros,
  • Letícia de Camargo Bassi,
  • Laura Passos Caldas,
  • Alice Sarantopoulos,
  • Eliete Boaventura Bargas Zeferino,
  • Vinicius Minatogawa and
  • Renata Cristina Gasparino

Several health services have used lean healthcare to seek continuous improvement of their processes. Therefore, it is important to investigate the evidence available in the literature about the most used lean tools in the health area to review proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
16,146 Views
27 Pages

Application of Six Sigma Methodology in an Automotive Manufacturing Company: A Case Study

  • Yung-Tsan Jou,
  • Riana Magdalena Silitonga,
  • Ming-Chang Lin,
  • Ronald Sukwadi and
  • Jovian Rivaldo

4 November 2022

Continuous improvement is the prime requirement for all industries to sustain and grow in the competitive global market. This paper is a case study of a manufacturing industry in Taiwan, facing the problem of rejection in the brushless motor product....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quality Management and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
18,382 Views
17 Pages

30 March 2018

Seeing that the prosperity of people and society is possible with the aid of sustained and inclusive economic growth of all countries and regions, the sustainable development of our world has gained the particular attention of a wide range of decisio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Business Cases for a Sustainable Accounting and Financial System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
10,215 Views
20 Pages

An Integrated Lean and Six Sigma Framework for Improving Productivity Performance: A Case Study in a Spanish Chemicals Manufacturer

  • Francisco J. Alarcón,
  • Mónica Calero,
  • María Ángeles Martín-Lara and
  • Salvador Pérez-Huertas

25 November 2024

In the pursuit of operational excellence and enhanced competitiveness, a wide range of industries have turned to methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma; however, in the chemical sector, their application is very limited. This paper presents a Lean...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,745 Views
24 Pages

20 May 2024

Today’s companies operate in a dynamic, constantly evolving, and highly competitive environment. The globalization of markets has significantly changed the economy, where companies operate within increasingly complex supply chains. The ever-inc...