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How to Adapt Lean Six Sigma to Improve Performance of Smes of Manufacturing Sector ?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Grudowski, P. Leseure, Ewa |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | At the time of the financial crisis, the small and medium-sized enterprises more than ever need to apply solutions that ensure an efficient use of the resources as well as the products satisfying the customer requirements in the terms of quality, price and time. There are many reasons that oblige the SMEs to apply a continuous improvement principle: either a necessity to adapt them to the changing market, a need of the development and competitiveness or a demand for using the modern management methods as a cooperation condition coming from their clients – the large companies. These requirements may be met by using the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) concept adapted to the small and medium-sized enterprises specificities, such as a lack of the financial resources, qualifications, time available and also a low level of the sector maturity. The mentioned conditions and a choice of the functional and flexible tools for the SMEs were specified in detail in the publications by P. Grudowski and E. Leseure in 2010 [Grudowski, Leseure, 2010, p. 121-130] as well as by P. Grudowski, E. Zajkowska, M. Bigand and E. Castelain in 2009 [Grudowski, Zajkowska, Bigand, Castelain, 2009, p. 276-281]. The main objective of the paper is to present the utilitarian effect of the adaptation of the Lean Six Sigma concept and its implementation in the small and medium-sized enterprises of the manufacturing sector. The original methodology was developed on the basis of research carried out in the Polish and French enterprises from 2009 to 2011. In the case of SMEs, the use of the concept of Lean Six Sigma is much less common, as evidenced by the scarce literature on the subject. Analysis of the cases of implementation of Lean Six Sigma in the SMEs of the manufacturing sector reveals the common barriers faced by these companies using this concept. This paper presents a framework of the methodology proposed as well as a case study of its application in the SMEs sector. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ptzp.org.pl/files/konferencje/kzz/artyk_pdf_2013/e014.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
