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Lean design is a term increasingly being used by both academics and practitioners to refer to lean principles applied in the context of design. However, as this context is not uniform, the meaning of lean design is not either. Lean design can be used as a synonym of lean development (which refers to leaning the processes required to be undertaken for translating a market need into a manufacturable device, as it is used in Ward and Sobek (2014), Ōno (1988), and Bauch (2004)), as a verb (referring to having the process of designing being performed in a lean fashion, as it is used by Baines et al. (2006)), and as a noun (referring to an object that fulfills a set of desired functions by being lean, as it is used in Johansson and Sundin (2014), Dombrowski et al. (2014), and Gautam and Singh (2008)). All three definitions are intrinsically founded upon the principles of the lean philosophy: eliminating...
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Jauregui-Becker, J.M., Perry, N. (2015). Lean Design. In: The International Academy for Produ, ., Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_16783-1
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