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An ontological and semantic foundation for safety science
Published in Stein Haugen, Anne Barros, Coen van Gulijk, Trond Kongsvik, Jan Erik Vinnem, Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World, 2018
The industrial revolution and the appearance of new technologies provoked reoccurring and severe accidents, damaging valuable assets, causing severe casualties and injuries to workers. In the beginning these accidents are just seen as set-backs, caused by workers behavior and part of the business. However, during the second industrial revolution, starting at the end of the 19th Century, the ongoing mechanization and new technological developments are used to develop new industries. Furthermore, production engineering substantially increased productivity with the advent of mass production. As a result, life was getting better, incomes were rising and mortality was declining. (Mokyr, 1998). These rapid economical, technological and social changes also triggered the dawn of safety as a science.
Afterword
Published in Shigeo Shingo, Andrew P. Dillon, The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo, 2018
Shigeo Shingo, Andrew P. Dillon
In 1978, Taiichi Ohno, then the central figure in the Toyota Production System, published a book entitled, The Toyota Production System (English version forthcoming, Productivity Press, fall 1987). As a specialist in production engineering, I then ventured to write The Toyota Production System—An Industrial Engineering Study (in Japanese), in 1980, based on Mr. Ohno’s and other published works. This book explained the concepts behind the Toyota Production System and presented specific techniques for putting those concepts into practice. The work struck a responsive chord with many production managers and production engineers and, in 1981, led to a consulting trip to Citrœn Automobile Company in France — the first consulting work I had done for an overseas firm.
Afterword
Published in Shigeo Shingo, Andrew P. Dillon, The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo, 2017
Shigeo Shingo, Andrew P. Dillon
In 1978, Taiichi Ohno, then the central figure in the Toyota Production System, published a book entitled, The Toyota Production System (English version forthcoming, Productivity Press, fall 1987). As a specialist in production engineering, I then ventured to write The Toyota Production System—An Industrial Engineering Study (in Japanese), in 1980, based on Mr. Ohno’s and other published works. This book explained the concepts behind the Toyota Production System and presented specific techniques for putting those concepts into practice. The work struck a responsive chord with many production managers and production engineers and, in 1981, led to a consulting trip to Citrœn Automobile Company in France — the first consulting work I had done for an overseas firm.
Lean and Industry 4.0: A bibliometric analysis, opportunities for future research directions
Published in Quality Management Journal, 2023
Juman Alsadi, Jiju Antony, Toufic Mezher, Raja Jayaraman, Maher Maalouf
The total number of times the publications on Lean Industry 4.0 have been used as a reference in other publications was 9900. However, the number of publications cited zero times contributed to 30.4% (n = 201/661), and publications cited 50 times or more contributed to 6.66% (n = 44/661). Literature presumed that open-access journal publications tend to be cited more than others (Whipple, Dixon, and McGowan 2013). Table 8 displays the ten most cited publications in the field. The paper with the highest number of citations is ‘Industry 4.0 implies Lean manufacturing: Research activities in industry 4.0 function as enablers for Lean manufacturing’ from Helmut-Schmidt-University, Institute of Production Engineering (Germany) in the Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (Spain). The paper has been cited 439 times since its publication in 2016.
The evolution of production scheduling from Industry 3.0 through Industry 4.0
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2021
Zengqiang Jiang, Shuai Yuan, Jing Ma, Qiang Wang
Production systems have undergone constant changes ever since the first Industrial Revolution. From economic perspective, the market demand for products has developed from mass production, multi-variety small-batch production, and mass customisation to large-scale personalised customisation. While in terms of technology, new developments in computers and ICT (e.g. cyber-physical systems (CPS), cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and big data), enabled manufacturing to be more flexible, efficient, and intelligent (Rossit, Tohmé, and Frutos 2019). According to the International Society of Production Engineering, there are altogether more than 30 advanced production paradigms (Esmaeilian 2016), typically Toyota production system, computer-integrated manufacturing system, flexible manufacturing system, lean production, agile manufacturing, reconfigurable manufacturing system, cloud manufacturing, network manufacturing, and intelligent manufacturing. Figure 1 depicts changes in scheduling modes generated by the transformation of production modes.
Maturity analysis of manufacturing cells
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2019
Izabela S. Rampasso, Rosley Anholon, Dirceu da Silva, Robert E. C. Ordóñez, Osvaldo L. G. Quelhas
The questionnaire was sent to 530 professionals who manage lean manufacturing cells. Of these, 101 replied, corresponding to a return rate of 19.05%. To facilitate data collection and tabulation, the Google Forms platform was used. Due to the challenges regarding the identification of all lean manufacturing managers, and because it is an exploratory research, a non-random sample was used. The respondents were selected through professional networks. All the respondents had experience managing lean manufacturing cells, and most had postgraduate degrees in topics related to production engineering and operations. Regarding their organizations, they are medium and large companies, most of them are multinational companies from different sectors. Therefore, it is a diversified sample. The questionnaire was made available on Google Forms for 3 months.