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Lean manufacturing: literature review and research issues

2014, International Journal of Operations & Production Management

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The goal of this study was be to provide structured literature review (SLR) and systematic insight of lean manufacturing practices, identifying gaps in knowledge and directing future research in the discipline of lean manufacturing. The study objectives were to: determine various research designs, research methods and data analysis methods that have been adopted to evaluate the practice of lean manufacturing; evaluate publishers, themes, university of author affiliation geographic locations, and industry engagement evolving all through the years and to establish research issues that will inspire research paradigm for future researchers in the discipline of lean manufacturing. This study identified and synthesized information from academic articles based on their data analysis techniques, research designs and methods, industry engagements, geographic locations, university of author affiliation, publishers and year of publication. Online database collection over the past 25 years focusing on lean manufacturing from 1996 to 2021 were explored with aid of the keywords "lean manufacturing"," lean manufacturing practices" and "lean manufacturing systems" in the title and/or abstract to provide a full list of journal articles. The review provided better understanding of the current state of research, dimensions and future directions of research in the lean manufacturing field. A total of 126 articles were retrieved based on this method and data was retrieved from a set of variables. In the last 25 years, there has been a gradual increase and concentration of researchers focusing on the lean manufacturing field. As globalization progresses, it is widely recognized that best practices need to be implemented because of scarcity of resources. This study revealed that 33.33% of the journals in this area of study were survey based and this trend in research indicates development of the multi-criterion decision-making and structural equation modelling methods. The study revealed that 86 articles were from between 2010-2014 and 2016-2021 of the total summation of 126 articles published. This study paper was narrowed in reviewing academic journals from online academic archives, with the words "lean manufacturing", "lean manufacturing practices "and "lean manufacturing systems" in their title cam abstract. Similarly, high quality peer-reviewed journal articles were rated. Other scientific sources such as books and conference papers are not considered in this paper. This review provides a better understanding of the current state of affairs, trends and future research direction lean manufacturing field.

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Twenty-first century manufacturing is characterized by customized products. This has led to the complex production planning and control systems making mass production of goods challenging. Many organizations, particularly automotive organizations, struggled in the new customer driven and globally competitive markets. These factors present a big challenge to organizations to look for new tools and methods to continue moving up the ladder in the changed market scenario. While some organizations continued to grow on the basis of economic constancy, others struggled because of their lack of understanding of the changed customer mind-sets and cost practices. To overcome this situation and to become more profitable, many manufacturers turned to “lean manufacturing” (LM). The goal of LM is to be highly responsive to customer demand by reducing waste. LM aims at producing products and services at the lowest cost and as fast as required by the customer.

The lean concept originated in Japan after the second world war when Japanese manufacturers realized that they could not afford the massive investment required to rebuild devastated facilities. Toyota produced automobiles with lesser inventory, human effort, investment, and defects and introduced a greater and ever growing variety of products. LM gives the manufacturers a competitive edge by reducing cost and improving productivity and quality. Various authors have documented quantitative benefits of lean implementation such as improvement in production lead time, processing time, cycle time, set up time, inventory, defects and scrap, and overall equipment effectiveness. The various qualitative benefits include improved employee morale, effective communication, job satisfaction, standardized housekeeping, team decision making, etc.

The generic term “LM” came into existence from the International Motor Vehicle Programme researchers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The project was focussed to bridge the significant performance gap between Western and Japanese automotive industries. Womack et al. (1990) through their book The Machine that Changed the World popularized lean concept in manufacturing. In early 1990s LM concept was viewed as a counter-intuitive alternative to traditional Fordism manufacturing model (Womack et al. , 1990). The modern concept of LM/management can be traced to the Toyota Production System (TPS), pioneered by Japanese engineers Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo. Sugimori et al. (1977) portray TPS made of two components – Just-In-Time (JIT) production system and a...

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Manufacturing industries have long viewed lean practices as a solution to reduce costs and respond to customer demands because it eliminates waste while requiring fewer resources. This study evaluates the literature on lean practices and reports on different lean practices for manufacturing industries. The topic is studied through a review of similar research papers. In addition, a literature review of lean practices has been carried out based on online data sources of well-known publishers. Finally, 95 related research studies and books from various publications have been reviewed. This study finds that lean practices (LP) improve the operational performance of manufacturing organizations in developed countries. A comprehensive list of 40 lean practices has been compiled from the reviewed literature. The majority of the research work in the study comes from the United States. The study found that lean practices research has become more widespread after 2007 in India. This review concludes that there is a need to find the effect of lean practices on the operational performance of manufacturing industries in developing countries such as India specially in the northern part of India. This research could bring fresh insights into lean practices for academicians and manufacturing managers. This article is expected to pave the path for future research and development in India's manufacturing industries in the realm of lean methods.

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Literature contributions to Lean manufacturing (LM) are fragmented and show some significant limitations. The purpose of this paper is to identify the existing research gaps in LM as well as to group them into respective themes.

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A systematic literature review (SLR) of peer reviewed journal articles in LM was carried out by the authors, based on four major publishers, namely, Emerald Online, Science Direct, Springer Link and Taylor & Francis. In total, 120 articles published in 30 journals during 2005–2016 were collected which revealed LM research gaps. A simple affinity diagram was applied in order to group the research gaps into logical themes.

A large number of research gaps are identified in the LM literature and meaningful themes of these gaps are also revealed.

Research limitations/implications

The SLR carried out by the authors is based on only four academic journal publishers and some of other publishers might have been missed out in this search. Excluding articles focusing on an individual Lean principle or tool/technique is also a limitation of the present SLR.

Practical implications

Researchers and practitioners can use the LM research gaps presented in this study for further development of LM methodology.

Originality/value

Presenting LM research gaps analytically and grouping them into meaningful themes, significantly differentiates the present SLR study from those published so far.

• Lean manufacturing
• Systematic literature review
• Research gap

Psomas, E. and Antony, J. (2019), "Research gaps in Lean manufacturing: a systematic literature review", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management , Vol. 36 No. 5, pp. 815-839. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQRM-12-2017-0260

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