Lean manufacturing for SMEs: Enabling rapid response to demand changes

dc.contributor.author	Achanga, Pius Coxwell	-
dc.contributor.author	Shehab, Essam	-
dc.contributor.author	Roy, Rajkumar	-
dc.contributor.author	Nelder, Geoff	-
dc.contributor.editor	Lewis, S. W.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2014-01-25T05:00:46Z
dc.date.available	2014-01-25T05:00:46Z
dc.date.issued	2005-12-31T00:00:00Z	-
dc.identifier.citation	Pius Achanga, Esam Shehab, Rajkumar Roy and Geoff Nelder, Lean manufacturing for SMEs: Enabling rapid response to demand changes, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED '05), Melbourne, Australia, 15-18 August 2005, paper number DS35_471.44.
dc.identifier.isbn	9780858257887	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8158
dc.description.abstract	Small-to-medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) make significant contributions to most national economies. In the UK for instance, SMEs account for up to 40% of gross domestic product (GDP) and 85% of newly created jobs. However, the current economic turnaround, fostered by recent technological advances in terms of e-commerce coupled with the advent of globalisation, has been felt in the manufacturing sector in general but more severely by SMEs. This paper aims to demonstrate through a case study approach how lean manufacturing can enable organisations to respond rapidly to sudden changes in customer demand.	en_UK
dc.title	Lean manufacturing for SMEs: Enabling rapid response to demand changes	en_UK
dc.type	Conference paper	-