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...R. Vigneshvaran; S. Vinodh Purpose Organisations are looking for a concept that can solve traditional as well upgraded production problems with current resources and technology, and this can be addressed by integration of lean six sigma (LSS) with Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies. This reduces...

...Krishnendu Saha; Bhavesh Patel; Stefania Paladini Purpose This study investigates the role of leadership and cultural transformation in facilitating Lean Six Sigma (LSS) practices in clinical pharmacy settings to reduce medicine waste within the UK National Health Services (NHS). Design...

.... This study aims to utilise Lean Six Sigma (LSS) principles to enhance the hospital's workflow. Design/methodology/approach The Action Research methodology was used to implement the project and develop the case study. The study took place in a large tertiary care academic hospital in India. The Define...

... an online survey to collect data. The questionnaire was sent to 800 senior managers, resulting in 249 useful responses. Findings The study results suggest that Six Sigma is the most widely utilized across the OPEX methodologies, followed by Lean Six Sigma and Lean. Agile manufacturing is the least...

... managed or is recommended for treatment through the application of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodologies. Design/methodology/approach To accomplish the study’s objectives, interpretive structural modeling (ISM) was utilized. This analytical tool aided in quantifying the driving power and dependencies...

...Maria Vincenza Ciasullo; Alexander Douglas; Emilia Romeo; Nicola Capolupo Purpose Lean Six Sigma in public and private healthcare organisations has received considerable attention over the last decade. Nevertheless, such process improvement methodologies are not generalizable, and their effective...

...Kumar Srinivasan; Parikshit Sarulkar; Vineet Kumar Yadav Purpose This article aims to focus on implementing Lean Six Sigma (LSS) in steel manufacturing to enhance productivity and quality in the galvanizing process line. In recent trends, manufacturing organizations have expressed strong interest...

...Giovanni Cláudio Pinto Condé; Pedro Carlos Oprime; Marcio Lopes Pimenta; Juliano Endrigo Sordan; Carlos Renato Bueno Purpose Competitive pressures force companies to seek solutions to eliminate wastes while improving product quality. Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has been considered one of the most...

...Jiju Antony; Olivia McDermott; Michael Sony; Daryl Powell; Ronald Snee; Roger Wesley Hoerl Purpose The paper aims to investigate the pros and cons of having a standard for lean six sigma developed in 2015. The study follows up on a previous study by Antony et al. (2021) in more depth...

...Ajay Noronha; Shreeranga Bhat; E.V. Gijo; Jiju Antony; Alessandro Laureani; Chad Laux Purpose The article intended to excavate the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) deployment challenges, Critical Success Factors (CSF), tools and techniques, and managerial implications in an Indian healthcare setting...

...Alireza Shokri; Gendao Li Purpose This study aims at investigating the impact of the perceived importance of critical cultural readiness factors (CRFs) is on perceived importance of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) technical critical success factors (CSFs) in UK manufacturing sector. Design/methodology...

... Six Sigma Lean Six Sigma NHS Benefits Tools and techniques Critical failure factors For the past 2 decades, there has been a growing interest in the healthcare sector that focuses on building a sustainable healthcare system (Sunder et al., 2020 ; Kroezen et al., 2018...

...Juliano Endrigo Sordan; Pedro Carlos Oprime; Marcio Lopes Pimenta; Sérgio Luis da Silva; Mario Orestes Aguirre González Purpose This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework of the implementation of the contact points (CPs) between Lean Six Sigma practices and Industry 4.0 technologies...

...Nikolaos A. Panayiotou; Konstantinos E. Stergiou; Nikolaos Panagiotou Purpose The purpose of this paper is the implementation of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) in a manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) in Greece in order to understand the contribution of LSS in its process improvement...

...Iman Adeinat; Naseem Al Rahahleh; Tameem Al Bassam Purpose This study aims to present a case study using a Lean Six Sigma (LSS) process to manage the Assurance of Learning (AoL) process in higher education. The case study highlights the value that LSS can bring to the higher education context...

.... Findings The study proposed an extended DMAIC based framework for effective implementation of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology. Furthermore, this framework has been implemented successfully in the Indian manufacturing organization and showed encouraging results. The in-house rejections of Nut Cylinder...

...Alireza Shokri; Jiju Antony; Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes; Michelle Upton Purpose This work presents a synthesis of current literature published from 2010 to provide an overall understanding of the sustainable implementation of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) projects in terms of project approaches rather than...

...Vinayambika S. Bhat; Shreeranga Bhat; E. V. Gijo Purpose The primary aim of this article is to ascertain the modalities of leveraging Lean Six Sigma (LSS) for Industry 4.0 (I4.0) with special reference to the process industries. Moreover, it intends to determine the applicability of simulation...

...Yaifa Trakulsunti; Jiju Antony; Mary Dempsey; Attracta Brennan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and its associated tools to reduce dispensing errors in an inpatient pharmacy of a teaching hospital in Thailand. Design/methodology/approach...