Lean and QRM: different or similar? A review of the literature

Some approaches have emerged in order to increase companies’ performance in their operations.  Lean Manufacturing is among them, in virtue of its productivity improvement, as well as Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM), for its high-variety strategy. However, the literature has not...

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Autores: Gómez Paredes, Fernando José, Godinho Filho, Dr. Moacir
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Institución:Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte (UNIBH)
Repositorio:Revista e-xacta
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.uninove.br:article/6844
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.uninove.br/exacta/article/view/6844
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Complementarities. Quick Response Manufacturing. Literature review. Lean Manufacturing.
Complementariedades. Quick Response Manufacturing. Manufatura Enxuta. Revisão de literatura.
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Sumario:Some approaches have emerged in order to increase companies’ performance in their operations.  Lean Manufacturing is among them, in virtue of its productivity improvement, as well as Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM), for its high-variety strategy. However, the literature has not elucidated yet how to use together these two approaches or whether they complement each other.  The aim of this article is to find similarities, differences, and complementarities of both approaches.  To achieve this, we used a literature review, classifying papers mainly by the type of approach and cited tools.  The main differences found were related to production systems and their performance indicators.  The principal similarities were in waste-reduction strategies, cell grouping and setup reduction.  The main complementarity were found in increasing flexibility from QRM to Lean in production as well as in supply chains.  Future research may empirically explore a combination of the two approaches.