Over the past twenty years, businesses of all sizes delivering products and services in a wide variety of markets have made attempts to integrate lean strategies and methods into their design processes. As many practitioners have noticed, the changes implied by lean are seldom straightforward and a number of organisational and even cultural barriers complicate these transformations.
This special issue aims to provide readers from the engineering and management community with a collection of accounts and reflections that help portray the current implications of lean thinking during design and development activities. The objective is not to rewrite the fundamental principles of lean that have been established through the study of the Japanese automotive industry, but rather to depict the struggles and new opportunities that have been encountered whilst implementing them in a variety of settings.
The Guest Editors invite both academics and industry professionals to submit original manuscripts that can shed some light on the question, “What makes a product development process lean?”
Suitable topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Lean product development practices, methods and tools
- Lean transformation observations and experiences
- Product development process analysis and assessment
- Formalisation of lean thinking in design and engineering
- Set-based concurrent engineering methodologies
- Information management for set-based engineering activities
- Lean and knowledge management in the enterprise
- Lean and sustainability in product design and development
- Cultural barriers to lean transformation
- Lean awareness and training methods
Submission of manuscripts: 1 July, 2013
Notification to authors: 1 October, 2013
Final versions due: 1 February, 2014
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