Industry 4.0 implies lean manufacturing: research activities in industry 4.0 function as enablers for lean manufacturing
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Abstract
Purpose: Lean Manufacturing is widely regarded as a potential methodology to improve
productivity and decrease costs in manufacturing organisations. The success of lean
manufacturing demands consistent and conscious efforts from the organisation, and has to
overcome several hindrances. Industry 4.0 makes a factory smart by applying advanced
information and communication systems and future-oriented technologies. This paper analyses
the incompletely perceived link between Industry 4.0 and lean manufacturing, and investigates
whether Industry 4.0 is capable of implementing lean. Executing Industry 4.0 is a cost-intensive
operation, and is met with reluctance from several manufacturers. This research also provides an
important insight into manufacturers’ dilemma as to whether they can commit into Industry 4.0,
considering the investment required and unperceived benefits.
Design/methodology/approach: Lean manufacturing is first defined and different dimensions
of lean are presented. Then Industry 4.0 is defined followed by representing its current status in
Germany. The barriers for implementation of lean are analysed from the perspective of
integration of resources. Literatures associated with Industry 4.0 are studied and suitable solution
principles are identified to solve the above mentioned barriers of implementing lean.
Findings: It is identified that researches and publications in the field of Industry 4.0 held answers
to overcome the barriers of implementation of lean manufacturing. These potential solution principles prove the hypothesis that Industry 4.0 is indeed capable of implementing lean. It
uncovers the fact that committing into Industry 4.0 makes a factory lean besides being smart.
Originality/value: Individual researches have been done in various technologies allied with
Industry 4.0, but the potential to execute lean manufacturing was not completely perceived. This
paper bridges the gap between these two realms, and identifies exactly which aspects of Industry
4.0 contribute towards respective dimensions of lean manufacturing.
CitacióSanders, Adam; Elangeswaran, Chola; Wulfsberg, Jens. Industry 4.0 implies lean manufacturing: research activities in industry 4.0 function as enablers for lean manufacturing. "Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management", Octubre 2016, vol. 9, núm. 3, p. 811-833.
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