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A dynamic modeling to measure lean performance within lean attributes

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In today’s competitive world lean manufacturing has become an important “role model” for two groups: academics and practitioners. Many organizations around the world have attempted to implement it but the lack of a clear understanding of the main attributes to leanness, lean performance and its measurement contribute to the failure of lean practices. It therefore seems necessary to provide a way to evaluate the impact of lean attributes using an approach to determine the criteria and key factors of leanness. Although there are numerous theoretical and practical studies that address lean tools and techniques, few studies focus systematically on measuring the influence of lean attributes on leanness. To fill the current gap, this paper presents an innovative approach to measure the value of the influence of lean attributes on manufacturing systems by using fuzzy membership functions. A lean attributes score is finally calculated to give managers and decision makers a real insight into the leanness level and to further improve it by acting appropriately in the manufacturing system. The model is dynamic, flexible, feasible, and easy to follow and implement. It enables a systematic measurement of the influence of lean attributes by producing a final integrated unit score.

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    Alireza Anvari

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    Norzima Zulkifli & Rosnah Mohd Yusuff

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Anvari, A., Zulkifli, N. & Yusuff, R.M. A dynamic modeling to measure lean performance within lean attributes. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 66, 663–677 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-012-4356-0

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