Kanban, MRP and shaping the manufacturing environment
Management Science
Ford Whitman Harris and the economic order quantity model
Operations Research
Analysis of a Kanban discipline for cell coordination in production lines
Management Science
Development of production cycles for group technology environment with the Wagner-Whitin algorithm
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Coping with the loss of pooling synergy in cellular manufacturing systems
Management Science
Period batch control for group technology—an improved procedure
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Material Requirements Planning: The New Way of Life in Production and Inventory Management
Material Requirements Planning: The New Way of Life in Production and Inventory Management
Predicting Maintenance Performance Using Object-Oriented Design Complexity Metrics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
To Pull or Not to Pull: What Is the Question?
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management
Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management
Load-Based POLCA: An Integrated Material Control System for Multiproduct, Multimachine Job Shops
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Editorial: Advancing lean manufacturing, the role of IT
Computers in Industry
Conceptual model of a future farm management information system
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
A simulation-based lean production approach at a low-volume parts manufacturer with part combining
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
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The principles of Lean Production have enabled organisations in the manufacturing and service sectors to significantly improve their competitiveness. The application of Lean principles, derived from the Toyota Production System has enabled many organisations to simultaneously improve productivity, quality and customer service. Similar benefits have been achieved through the application of information technology (IT). The application of IT and Lean principles are claimed to be interdependent and complimentary by some; whilst others have seen as the approaches as being mutually exclusive. This article presents reviews the role of IT in achieving the principles of Lean Production. Three important topics are reviewed: the use of IT in production logistics; computer-aided production management systems; and advanced plant maintenance. It is shown that the roots of different ways of working were similar, but that subsequent developments followed in opposite directions. Later, when the acceptance of Lean Production became more pervasive, the practices typically converged into hybrid production systems, applying elements of several systems in a way that is consistent with the principles with Lean Production.