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.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.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.title | Lean manufacturing for SMEs: Enabling rapid response to demand changes | en_UK |
| dc.type | Conference paper | - |