TY - CHAP
T1 - Critical Factors on Lean Implementation to the Portuguese Aeronautic Industry
AU - de Oliveira, Manuela Maria
AU - Rouco, Carlos
AU - Gonçalves, Paula
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - The Portuguese public sector organizations are increasingly concerned about cost reduction, not only because of the constant budget reductions due not only to the economic crises settled in the country but also to the pandemic scenario whose consequences are still unknown and unpredictable. In addition, an increasing concern is a circularity that contributes to a more sustainable world through focus on resource cycles approaches. In this context was conducted a systematic review and skimming of papers for relevance based on Lean techniques applied to the Portuguese aeronautic industry, using the Online Knowledge Library (b-on) and national university’s repositories. Aiming to identify Lean critical factors resulting from Lean techniques implementation in the sector, the results of the literature review determined as main difficulties founded during all the process, include the existence of several hierarchical dependencies, being a pioneer in their implementation, the lack of motivation of the workers, the lack of training, misalignment of goals and resistance to change, resulting in loss of function control, operational instability and setbacks. Nonetheless, Lean implementation also revealed important advantages, such as human resources reduction, resource optimization, elimination of task duplication, process simplification, and warehouse space optimization. Although the present study has a theoretical approach, all critical factors presented were tested on empirical-based studies proving evidence about their validity.
AB - The Portuguese public sector organizations are increasingly concerned about cost reduction, not only because of the constant budget reductions due not only to the economic crises settled in the country but also to the pandemic scenario whose consequences are still unknown and unpredictable. In addition, an increasing concern is a circularity that contributes to a more sustainable world through focus on resource cycles approaches. In this context was conducted a systematic review and skimming of papers for relevance based on Lean techniques applied to the Portuguese aeronautic industry, using the Online Knowledge Library (b-on) and national university’s repositories. Aiming to identify Lean critical factors resulting from Lean techniques implementation in the sector, the results of the literature review determined as main difficulties founded during all the process, include the existence of several hierarchical dependencies, being a pioneer in their implementation, the lack of motivation of the workers, the lack of training, misalignment of goals and resistance to change, resulting in loss of function control, operational instability and setbacks. Nonetheless, Lean implementation also revealed important advantages, such as human resources reduction, resource optimization, elimination of task duplication, process simplification, and warehouse space optimization. Although the present study has a theoretical approach, all critical factors presented were tested on empirical-based studies proving evidence about their validity.
KW - Continuous improvement
KW - Critical factors
KW - Lean
KW - Portuguese aeronautic industry
KW - Quality maintenance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85192218009&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-8894-5_2
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-8894-5_2
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85192218009
SN - 9789819988938
T3 - Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
SP - 15
EP - 26
BT - Developments and Advances in Defense and Security - MICRADS 2023
A2 - Rocha, Alvaro
A2 - Rodríguez, José María Riola
A2 - Fajardo-Toro, Carlos Hernán
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - Multidisciplinary International Conference of Research Applied to Defense and Security, MICRADS 2023
Y2 - 6 July 2023 through 8 July 2023
ER -