... SME Best practice Interesting because: Despite the significant opportunities that Industry 4.0 offers, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been slow to embrace the transformation, making it crucial to understand how to navigate this shift successfully...

... possibilities for future contributions. Performance measurement Best practice Benchmarking Lean manufacturing Performance indicators Manufacturing management The work initially conducted on lean practices assessment soon evolved to incorporate the performance component. From the beginning...

...” in aviation MRO context the following objectives were set: Peter Ayeni can be contacted at: Peter.Ayeni@Hotmail.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Decision making Continuous improvement Lean Customer relations Best practice Value Lean production has been identified...

... in mind broader organizational strategies such as lean. Todd A. Boyle can be contacted at: tboyle@stfx.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Flexible manufacturing systems Lean production Best practice If the lean philosophy forms a large part of the organizational strategy...

... on best practice benchmarking. According to Camp (1989) , benchmarking is the search for industry best practices that will lead to superior performance. Spendolini (1992) defines benchmarking as a continuous systematic process for evaluating the products, services and work organizations...

... Best practice Over the past 50 years, managers and academics have witnessed manufacturing flexibility rise from its early beginnings as a vision of machines capable of executing a bundle of related functions (Sethi and Sethi, 1990) to a manufacturing strategy dimension as important as quality...

...Vic Gilgeous; Maria Gilgeous Fieldwork in several “best practice” companies showed that the important performance objectives sought to fulfil each company’s manufacturing strategy were achieved through the use of initiatives and supporting enablers. A manufacturing excellence framework shows how...