Lean manufacturing is an emerging concept in the Indian manufacturing scenario. Many
small and medium scale enterprises in the country are aiming for fastest rate of improvement …

The purpose of any business is to delight the customer as a primary stakeholder, thereby
enhancing the growth and profitability. Understanding customer needs and building them on …

Value stream mapping (VSM) is considered as an important tool in lean manufacturing that
allows analysts to visualize the actual situation that happens in the production value stream …

In the current manufacturing world, the utilization of proper resource and making the process
fool proofing plays a significant role. These challenges can be addressed with the aid of …

Industrial companies looking for permanent performance are facing challenges of reducing
production costs, reducing customer delivery delays and improving their quality products …

In the paper two kind of simulation methods, ie system dynamics simulation (SDS) and
discrete event simulation (DES), are proposed to simulate orders processing in a …

Currently, the concept of Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) is reaching most companies by changing the
characteristics of their production systems. The aim of this study was to determine the …

Disabled people can be successfully employed in most production processes, provided that
one knows how to exploit their abilities and take into account their limitations in order to give …

The current competitive environment demands companies to be more and more efficient. In
order to increase manufacturing efficiency, two apparently independent approaches have …

This paper studies manufacturing processes in a wooden furniture manufacturing company.
The company suffers from long manufacturing lead times and an unbalanced production …