A Kind of Lean Approach for Removing Wastes From Non-Manufacturing Process With Various Facilities

作     者：Guangyu Xiong Xiuqin Shang Gang Xiong Timo R.Nyberg 

作者机构：IEEE the Silk Road Business SchoolSanya University the Department of Industrial Engineering and ManagementSchool of ScienceAalto University the State Key Laboratory for Management and Controlof Complex SystemsInstitute of AutomationChinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) Qingdao Academy of Intelligent Industries the Cloud Computing CenterCAS the Beijing Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Systems and TechnologyInstitute of AutomationCAS the School of Science at Aalto University 

出 版 物：《IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica》 (自动化学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第6卷第1期

页      面：307-315页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 1202[管理学-工商管理] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61773381,61773382,61533019,91520301) Finnish TEKES’s Project "SoMa2020:Social Manufacturing" (211560) Chinese Guangdong’s S&T Project (2015B010103001,2016B090910001,2017B090912001) Dongguan’s Innovation Talents Project (Gang Xiong) 

主　　题：Lean approach non-manufacturing process optimized order handling process removing wastes value chain win-win scenario 

摘      要：It is important to identify and remove the wastes not only from manufacturing process, but also from nonmanufacturing process. In the last several decades, significant research achievements and practice benefits have been achieved about removing wastes from manufacturing process. Since the1990 s, some researchers and lean practitioners have paid more attention to removing waste from non-manufacturing process.Based on the authors research work and industrial practice, the paper introduces a kind of lean approach for removing waste from non-manufacturing process. In its case study, the order handling process in a value chain is described with respect to a factory and its downstream distribution centers(DCs). The paper proposes a lean approach solution for creating the improved order handling process, and analyze how great improvements in performance can be achieved. As a result, the significant achievement has created a win-win scenario for both the nonmanufacturing process in a factory and non-manufacturing facilities(like DCs) across the value chain. It demonstrates that improvements have been made by removing waste from the non-manufacturing process that takes place within a factory as well as with external participants through the whole value chain. Likewise, the proposed lean approach has helped the case companies to achieve greater levels of efficiency and more benefits. Finally, some conclusions are drawn.