Lean Transformation in Small and Medium Enterprises: Practices, Enabling Factors, and Constraints

This book is a compilation of 18 contributions to the discussion of the main topic’s concern with exploring and capturing soft building blocks of successful Lean transformation on the shop floor level and also how to maintain and continuously improve Lean status quo from the social, managerial, and organizational perspectives. These well-selected 18 chapters are written by a group of 34 authors that includes internationally highly respected and experienced authors in the field of designing and management of Lean Production Systems and a set of younger scientists and researchers showing beyond all doubt promising potential for research and development. The book integrates contributions from academe, research, and industry from around of the world to represents good practices, state-of-the-art approaches, principles, and developments that are addressed to this subject.