Editors:
- Presents selected papers from the 6th European Lean Educator Conference (ELEC), held in Milan, Italy, on November 11-13, 2019
- Focuses on the lean approach, the forefront of its development, and the educational process needed to disseminate it in both academia and industry
- Brings together academics (instructors and researchers), intermediaries (consultants and coaches) and practitioners (managers and employees from industry)
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS, volume 122)
Conference series link(s): ELEC: European Lean Educator Conference
Conference proceedings info: ELEC 2019.
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Table of contents (41 papers)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the 6th European Lean Educator Conference (ELEC), held in Milan, Italy, on November 11-13, 2019. The conference topics include the following: lean trainings in university and industry collaborations; lean product and process development; lean and people empowerment; emerging contexts for lean applications; measuring lean performance; lean, green and circular; continuous improvement initiatives; lean thinking in practice; organizational culture in lean journeys; and innovative training approaches to teaching lean management. The contributions explore the latest academic and industrial findings on and advances in lean education, and identify innovative methods that allow lean thinking benefits to be achieved in practice. As such, the book presents the outcomes of a fruitful exchange between academia and industry designed to help train the next generation of lean educators.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Monica Rossi, Matteo Rossini, Sergio Terzi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Proceedings of the 6th European Lean Educator Conference
Book Subtitle: ELEC 2019
Editors: Monica Rossi, Matteo Rossini, Sergio Terzi
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41429-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41428-3Published: 05 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41431-3Published: 05 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41429-0Published: 04 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2367-3370
Series E-ISSN: 2367-3389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 431
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 77 illustrations in colour
Topics: Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes, Sustainability Management, Innovation/Technology Management