Identifying Essential Components of Lean Approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 433-440 ◽  
pp. 372-378
Author(s):  
Barbara Lyonnet ◽  
Maurice Pillet ◽  
Magali Pralus
Keyword(s):  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Lean Practices ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation

Any company wishing to implement a Lean approach is faced with the following issue: should Lean be implemented sequentially or simultaneously? No consensus on the method for implementing Lean has been established. For this reason we sought to find out if there was an implementation order regarding Lean practices. 25 Lean experts were interviewed. We used a precedence method to identify the potential precedence for implementing certain Lean practices. We considered only the common responses from over 50% of Lean experts interviewed. We showed that five precedence levels could exist. Understanding these levels should contribute to the creation of a deployment standard for Lean, as well as the successful implementation of Lean practices in companies.

scholarly journals An Early European Critic of Hobbes’s De Corpore

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Clucas
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Common Understanding ◽  
Previous Scholarship ◽  
Philosophical Underpinning ◽  
Scholastic Tradition

The Animadversiones in Elementorum Philosophiae by a little known Flemish scholar G. Moranus, published in Brussels in 1655 was an early European response to Hobbes’s De Corpore. Although it is has been referred to by various Hobbes scholars, such as Noel Malcolm, Doug Jesseph, and Alexander Bird it has been little studied. Previous scholarship has tended to focus on the mathematical criticisms of André Tacquet which Moranus included in the form of a letter in his volume. Moranus’s philosophical objections to Hobbes’s natural philosophy offer a fascinating picture of the critical reception of Hobbes’s work by a religious writer trained in the late Scholastic tradition. Moranus’s opening criticism clearly shows that he is unhappy with Hobbes’s exclusion of the divine and the immaterial from natural philosophy. He asks what authority Hobbes has for breaking with the common understanding of philosophy, as defined by Cicero ‘the knowledge of things human and divine’. He also offers natural philosophical and theological criticisms of Hobbes for overlooking the generation of things involved in the Creation. He also attacks the natural philosophical underpinning of Hobbes’s civil philosophy. In this paper I look at a number of philosophical topics which Moranus criticised in Hobbes’s work, including his mechanical psychology, his theory of imaginary space, his use of the concept of accidents, his blurring of the distinction between the human being and the animal, and his theories of motion. Moranus’s criticisms, which are a mixture of philosophical and theological objections, gives us some clear indications of what made Hobbes’ natural philosophy controversial amongst his contemporaries, and sheds new light on the early continental reception of Hobbes’s work.

The Creation of a Multi-Link Load Balancing Mechanism for Planetary Gearing: Part 2 — Optimum Mechanism Selection and Dimension Determination

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhang Hong ◽  
Wei-qing Cao ◽  
Ting Li Yang ◽  
Jin Kui Chu
Keyword(s):  
Load Balancing ◽  
Arbitrary Number ◽  
Uniform Load ◽  
Topological Structures ◽  
Optimum Load ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Set Up

Abstract This paper is the second of a series of two papers which designed a new type of load balancing mechanisms for planetary gearings with arbitrary number of planets. In this paper the common expression of the non-uniform load share factor was deduced, and a function parameter:force-arm factor and their solution was given. That makes it possible that the dimensions and the ability of load equilibrium of Multi-Link Load Balancing Mechanisms can be determined. The criteria of optimum load balancing Mechanisms selection were set up with consider of the effects of turning pair clearances, and optimum mechanisms were selected among the 15 candidates obtained in Part 1. Finally, it was demonstrated that the optimum multi-link load balancing mechanisms for arbitrary number of planets had the similar topological structures and same function and performence of load equilibrium.

Representing and commoning the refugee crisis: The ‘assemblage’ of the Lesvos Migration Atlas

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-42
Author(s):  
Myrto Tsilimpounidi ◽  
Naya Tselepi ◽  
Orestis Pangalos ◽  
Chryssanthi ‘Christy’ Petropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Representations ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Photographic Material ◽  
New Material ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Collective Process ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation

This article uses a critical lens to examine the various representations of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ in Lesvos, Greece through both the system of the hotspot regime and the performative acts of commoning, defined as the creation of the commons. It also proposes a process of commoning by the creation of an ‘assemblage’ of the Lesvos Migration Atlas. In this manner, the Atlas as an outcome of the research is itself a representation that embraces theory, narratives, practices, and acts; a visual and symbolic tool that provides space for photographic material, videos, artworks, (re)mappings, everyday stories, and reflective texts. At the same time, it is a collective process of capturing, writing and representing, open to new material and scripts – thus a product in a process of becoming. Overall, the online and interactive Lesvos Migration Atlas can well be approached as an ‘assemblage’ that respects the mobility and contingency of the various crises, representations and acts of commoning. In the Atlas, the refugee crisis, the hotspot regime and the common spaces that have been created are brought together through the emergence and critical confrontation of the multiple representations of Lesvos.

scholarly journals Sociolingvistická situace psaných slovanských jazyků v 1. polovině 18. století

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-40
Author(s):  
Vladislav Knoll
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Function Structure ◽  
Complex Image ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
National Languages

The main aim of the article is to present a complex image of the diversity, use and functions of written Slavonic idioms in the first half of the 18th century, which is the period that shortly precedes the creation of the modern national languages. This detailed view shows that the number of the written varieties was much larger, and the function structure of the single languages and varieties in each speech community was more complex than now. The article also discusses the methodological issues linked to the studies on the pre-national languages and tries to find the common patterns of variety hierarchy in each of the main cultural areas of the Slavonic world.

scholarly journals Brazilian musical sociolinguistics

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-130
Author(s):  
Gabriel Orlando Quiñones Maldonado ◽  
Clara Coleta Oropeza Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Cerebral Hemispheres ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Brazilian Music ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
The Creation

This article is the result of years of experience and contact with the teaching of the Portuguese of Brazil and with the reflections derived from a postdoctoral research. In this research, there is relevant information about the teaching of the Portuguese of Brazil as a foreign language and the various needs presented by former students from Puerto Rico. The questionnaire was used to investigate if there was a problem among the alumni community. The problem presented by the former students was the lack of a playful course in Brazilian music, which, in turn, needs to integrate all the essential components for the advanced learning of the Portuguese, such as: linguistics and its variants and society and culture. The needs found in the investigation were compiled based on the responses of students from Portuguese of Brazil in Puerto Rico. Neuroscience data revealed the indisputable connection that exists between the two cerebral hemispheres: the logical and the holistic in parallel. To solve the problem with the creation of the Brazilian musical sociolinguistics course to meet the needs of future students of the Portuguese program was one of the objectives of the work. It is also intended that the research serves as a scientific basis for the implementation of the course.

scholarly journals Community building as an educational task

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Waldemar Segiet
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Socialization Processes ◽  
Educational Task ◽  
Reflexive Modernity ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation

Along with the description of contemporary societies, including the indication of clear tendencies towards „individualisation” of lifespan, focusing on subjects that observe themselves with reflection, an issue appears regarding the creation of a community, including the educational one. A peculiar outline of the reflexive modernity is recognised on the basis the ways how individuals achieve social integration. Despite the differentiating forms of social and cultural life, the foundation of the accomplishment of self and the society,is still „community”, which constitutes an encouragement to enter the issue of social (dis)integration, an inspiration allowing to bestow a defined sense on democracy, and socialization processes. Therefore, the need to consider the issues of communities arises, including their confirmation in education. To present a path for social integration, with the full awareness that in modern societies the „common good” ideal is being lost, one should be accompanied by indications regarding education itself. One may reduce them to how the community constituted due to and within education, ensured the integration of all entities concerned, and helped accomplish democracy.

scholarly journals Human Prospective of Higher Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Nifle
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Rear View Mirror ◽  
Virtual Realities ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation

The “knowledge society” is an effect of “foresight to the rear view mirror”. The mutation should initially be understood as the passage of a logic of “adaptive conformation”, with a logic “of responsible autonomisation”. It will be henceforth stake and method. The integration of the three shutters axiologic, epistemological and praxeologic around the “common sense” and of empowerment or responsible autonomisation is an answer to the questions of the congress. For that it is necessary to exceed “the rational intelligence”, to reach the “ symbolic intelligence” or intelligence of Sense. The mutation is an entry in an age of Sense, that of the communities of Sense and projects, that of worlds and virtual realities. Three radical axes of change: - the responsible autonomisation like finality, capacity and method of teaching - the creation of virtual places of teaching and of formation with the macropedagogic cities. - a transdisciplinarity based on `symbolic intelligence” or intelligence of Sense.

The relationship between organizational attitude and lean practices: an organizational sense-making perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 120 (9) ◽  
pp. 1715-1731
Author(s):  
Mohsin Malik ◽  
Salam Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Customer Management ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Lean Management ◽  
Lean Implementation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Lean Practices

PurposePast studies of lean have failed to sufficiently address the importance of social factors for successful lean implementations. This paper aims to broaden and deepen the understanding of lean as a socio-technical paradigm by conceptualizing lean implementation as an organizational change process.Design/methodology/approachThis study draws on the organizational sense-making literature to conceptualize and validate lean implementation as an organizational change process that necessitates a focus on the ability of organizational actors to construct a shared meaning of lean. This study posit that this shared understanding shapes the collective behaviour and attitudes of people towards a future desired organizational state such as a successful implementation of lean. Survey data were collected from various manufacturing and services firms to test the hypothesis derived from literature using a structural equation modelling approach.FindingsThe mutual social interactions of organizational actors contribute to an enabling lean organizational attitude that has a dominant effect on the lean practices of employee involvement, internal technical practices, supplier and customer management. This study also established boundary conditions for these relationships by identifying firm size as a moderating variable.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings establish a supportive organizational attitude as an antecedent for lean implementation, which goes beyond the current socio-technical characterization of lean management. This conceptualization draws the attention of researchers and practitioners towards the critical role of the cooperative behaviours of organizational actors in lean implementations.Originality/valueThe statistical results add a novel perspective to the discourse on the social dimension of lean implementation by conceptualizing and validating lean management as a combination of organizational attitude and the process facilitators comprising of employee empowerment, internal technical practices, supplier and customer management.

Strategic Capital Capacity and Capability Management of IS/IT

2009 ◽  
pp. 230-249
Author(s):  
Teay Shawyun
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Capacity Management ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Implementation Model ◽  
The Core ◽  
Organizational Issues ◽  
It Implementation ◽  
Management Of Technology ◽  
The Creation

As IS/IT are technology enablers in the creation and delivery of the value, it is contended that all the core processes enabled by its technology should be aligned through the “ways and means” and the “what and how” value is added through the IT enabled processes. The management and implementation of the IT is dependant on the capacity and capability of the firm, and these are human and organizational based, that ultimately defines the firm’s competency affecting successful implementation and utilization of the IS/IT. This chapter proposes a “capacity and capability” model based on the management of technology approach (the management of its Technoware, Humanware, Inforware and Orgaware) and its technology capabilities approach to manage its human, information and organization capitals critical to the successful IS/IT implementation and utilization. The “capacity and capability” model is the base of the integrated strategic capability driven implementation model that is contended to address the key implementation issues in a more integrated and comprehensive way. The capability and capacity management of the IS/IT is contended to better address the utilization success based on the inter-twined THIO that addresses the human and organizational issues as compared to the traditional approach of having the MIS resources.

The Concept of a Meeting and Quorum

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Kosmin ◽  
Catherine Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Orderly Fashion ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Regular Manner ◽  
A Company

The need to hold a meeting will arise in many different and diverse situations. All meetings are subject to procedural rules and regulations of the particular institution that has convened the meeting. The reason why there are rules and regulations is so that the participants at a duly convened meeting can transact business in a lawful manner and so that they will be able to debate and discuss issues in an orderly fashion. This book is concerned with the meetings of solvent companies that are registered and incorporated under the statutory provisions regulating companies. The reason for the requirement for meetings under the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) is so that the members can attend either in person or by proxy in order to debate and vote on matters affecting the affairs of a company. There are a number of procedures, some that are derived from the common law and others that are the creation of statute, that have to be observed in order for a meeting of a company to transact business in a lawful and regular manner.

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