Lean manufacturing has proven to be an efficient means improving mass production. Recently, Lean is of increasing interest for high-variety, low-volume production environments. However, little research has been done in this field. Yet, this contribution provides a systematic literature analysis in conjunction …

Presentatie gehouden op 17 februari 2016

Van flexikul naar flexicurity?Problematiek wordt nooit alleen op brancheniveau opgelost.Eigen keuzes bepalend: wie wil prijsvechten maakt heel andere keuzes dan wie high performance wil bieden.Kwaliteitsstrategie wordt interessanter.Meer regie over groter deel van het proces maakt dat makkelijker. Misverstand: …

Workshop Lean Start-up: short lecture to graduation own business group, held on 28-10-2015.

College Slim Organiseren studenten Minor Slim Produceren, 15 september 2015.

Presentatie Quick Response Manufacturing bij de KvK/NPAL, gehouden op 16 april 2015.Aan de orde komen: Het gelijk van Suri, Suri: dat gaat fout!, Lean, QRM, Functionele Structuur, Organisatiemanagement, Buurtzorg Nederland.

Lean Six Sigma is applied in a wide range of economic domains ranging from industry to services to healthcare. These are all domains that have markedly different structures. Recently a set of papers has appeared indicating that the successes in applying Lean Six Sigma to new domains such as government, …

The economic situation of Europe and growth of employment largely depends on small sized and medium sized enterprises that provides around 4 million jobs every year. Young people face increasing difficulties in finding jobs and therefore there is a pressing need to promote entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial …

Lean Production (LP) can be regarded as a design approach in search of a theoretical foundation. In this paper we show that Lowlands’ Sociotechnical Design Theory (STSL) could function as such a foundation. To reach this goal, we first describe STSL as a system theoretical reformulation of Original Sociotechnical …