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Lean & Value Streams: Lean - Case Studies & Company Practices

Guide identifies current as well as pioneering works of the developers of lean principles. Explains the concept of value streams and how to apply value stream mapping (VSM) to create lean organizations.

Production - Multiple Sectors

Proulx, Luc. “Lean Implementation, Step by Step.” Plant Engineering 68, no. 9 (November 2014): 93–97.
Focus on implementing lean for total productive maintenance (TPM) program
Womack, J. P. and Jones, D. T. (1996). Beyond Toyota: How to Root Out Waste and Pursue Perfection. Harvard Business Review, 74(5), pp. 140–158
Features Lantech, a small manufacturer of stretch-wrapping machines in Louisville, Kentucky

Lean Systems: Applications and Case Studies in Manufacturing, Service, and Healthcare by Elizabeth A. Cudney (Editor); Sandra Furterer (Editor); David Dietrich (Editor)
ISBN: 9780429097911
Publication Date: 2013-10-16
Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers by Jeffrey K. Liker
ISBN: 1563271737
Publication Date: 1997-11-12
Flow Manufacturing -- What Went Right, What Went Wrong: 101 mini-case studies that reveal lean's successes and failures by Richard J. Schonberger
ISBN: 9781138362291
Publication Date: 2018-11-21

Production - Aerospace

Aicha Amrani & Yves Ducq (2020) Lean practices implementation in aerospace based on sector characteristics: Methodology and case study. Production Planning & Control, 31:16, 1313-1335.

Production - Automotive

Designing the Future: How Ford, Toyota, and Other World-Class Organizations Use Lean Product Development to Drive Innovation and Transform Their Business by James M. Morgan; Jeffrey K. Liker
ISBN: 9781260128789
Publication Date: 2018-10-31
Lean-Driven Innovation: Powering Product Development at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company by Norbert Majerus
ISBN: 9780429256943
Publication Date: 2017-07-27

Lacerda, António Pedro, Ana Raquel Xambre, and Helena Maria Alvelos. 2016. Applying Value Stream Mapping to Eliminate Waste: A Case Study of an Original Equipment Manufacturer for the Automotive Industry. International Journal of Production Research 54 (6

Planet Lean Resources

Information Technology

Gijo, E. V., Antony, J., & Vijaya, S. M. (2019). Application of lean six sigma in IT support services – a case study. TQM Journal, 31(3), 417-435

Healthcare

Furterer, S. L. (2018). Applying Lean Six Sigma methods to reduce length of stay in a hospital’s emergency department Quality Engineering, 30(3), 389–404