From Lean Production to Lean 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review with a Historical Perspective
Over recent decades, the increasing competitiveness of markets has propagated the term “lean” to describe the management concept for improving productivity, quality, and lead time in industrial as well as services operations. Its overuse and linkage to different specifiers (surnames) have created co...
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| description | Over recent decades, the increasing competitiveness of markets has propagated the term “lean” to describe the management concept for improving productivity, quality, and lead time in industrial as well as services operations. Its overuse and linkage to different specifiers (surnames) have created confusion and misunderstanding as the term approximates <i>pragmatic ambiguity</i>. Through a <i>systematic literature review</i>, this study takes a historical perspective to analyze 4962 papers and 20 seminal books in order to clarify the origin, evolution, and diversification of the lean concept. Our main contribution lies in identifying 17 specifiers for the term “lean” and proposing four mechanisms to explain this diversification. Our research results are useful to both academics and practitioners to return to the Lean origins in order to create new research areas and conduct organizational transformations based on solid concepts. We conclude that the use of “lean” as a systemic thinking is likely to be further extended to new research fields. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-101c4df0220a4decb88731f621740c832023-11-22T20:30:59ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172021-11-0111211031810.3390/app112110318From Lean Production to Lean 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review with a Historical PerspectiveFrancisco Gil-Vilda0José A. Yagüe-Fabra1Albert Sunyer2LEANBOX SL, Distrito 22@. C/Juan de Austria 126, 08018 Barcelona, SpainI3A—Universidad de Zaragoza, C/María de Luna, 3, 50018 Zaragoza, SpainESEIAAT—Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, C/Colom, 11, 08222 Barcelona, SpainOver recent decades, the increasing competitiveness of markets has propagated the term “lean” to describe the management concept for improving productivity, quality, and lead time in industrial as well as services operations. Its overuse and linkage to different specifiers (surnames) have created confusion and misunderstanding as the term approximates <i>pragmatic ambiguity</i>. Through a <i>systematic literature review</i>, this study takes a historical perspective to analyze 4962 papers and 20 seminal books in order to clarify the origin, evolution, and diversification of the lean concept. Our main contribution lies in identifying 17 specifiers for the term “lean” and proposing four mechanisms to explain this diversification. Our research results are useful to both academics and practitioners to return to the Lean origins in order to create new research areas and conduct organizational transformations based on solid concepts. We conclude that the use of “lean” as a systemic thinking is likely to be further extended to new research fields.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/21/10318lean manufacturinglean production systemslean 4.0systematic literature review |
| spellingShingle | Francisco Gil-Vilda José A. Yagüe-Fabra Albert Sunyer From Lean Production to Lean 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review with a Historical Perspective Applied Sciences lean manufacturing lean production systems lean 4.0 systematic literature review |
| title | From Lean Production to Lean 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review with a Historical Perspective |
| title_full | From Lean Production to Lean 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review with a Historical Perspective |
| title_fullStr | From Lean Production to Lean 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review with a Historical Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Lean Production to Lean 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review with a Historical Perspective |
| title_short | From Lean Production to Lean 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review with a Historical Perspective |
| title_sort | from lean production to lean 4 0 a systematic literature review with a historical perspective |
| topic | lean manufacturing lean production systems lean 4.0 systematic literature review |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/21/10318 |
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