Abstract
abstract: This article presents a bibliometric analysis on the Lean System over the period ranging from 2006 to 2017, showing the evolution of the publications over the years, the number of publications per country, the main journals, the most prolific authors, the most used keywords, and eventually barriers for the implementation of the Lean System. The greatest growth of publication rate occurred from 2014 to 2015. The countries with the most contribution have been the United Kingdom, the United States, and Sweden. The publications have been concentrated primarily in twelve journals. The bibliometric map of keywords presented them grouped into six clusters. Several underlying factors like technical and managerial aspects, planning, and leadership can explain the main barriers for the implementation of the Lean System. According to the literature, the understanding of such barriers is the best way to reduce the implementation-time and reach profitability and competitiveness. Therefore, the main contribution of this work is to make the evolution and importance of publications in this area are better known, helping organizations in the knowledge of the Lean System implementation barriers present in the literature, and in reformulating the curricula of undergraduate and postgraduate in disciplines related to Lean System. Finally, a future scientometric analysis on the subject is suggested, covering the analysis of evolution of publications, scientific journal, and authors distributions, by means of bibliometric laws, like those by Price, Bradford and Lotka, respectively.
Highlights
After the World War Two, the Japanese automaker industry had the challenge to compete against his American peers that was eight times more productive
The Japanese designed a new production system that, while based on Taylor and Ford’s concepts (Murman et al, 2002) was mainly focused on eliminating all kinds of waste. Such production system was first implemented at Toyota, so it was known as Toyota Production System (TPS)
This paper aims to investigate the performance of Lean System researches published from 2006 to 2017 in the Scopus database, to confirm the relevance of the theme, to find out the most relevant publications and its authors and the countries most interested in the subject by means of a bibliometric analysis
Summary
After the World War Two, the Japanese automaker industry had the challenge to compete against his American peers that was eight times more productive. The Japanese designed a new production system that, while based on Taylor and Ford’s concepts (Murman et al, 2002) was mainly focused on eliminating all kinds of waste. Such production system was first implemented at Toyota, so it was known as Toyota Production System (TPS). According to Womack et al (1990) the TPS is renowned for its focus on reduction of the original Toyota seven wastes to improve overall customer value. The management philosophy of the TPS was firstly identified as lean by Krafcik (1988) and revealed to the world by Womack et al (1990). The automotive industry pioneered the application of the Lean System, but today it is possible to see it running at many kinds of manufacturing industries such as electronics, steel, aerospace, machinery building and more
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