Title: Lean, Agile, Resilient and Green Supply Chain Management: LARG_SCM Starting Date: 1 June 2009 Expected Completion Date: 31 May 2012 PI: V. Cruz Machado Institutions/Research Centers involved: - Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial (UNIDEMI) - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL)
- Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias
- Universidade da Beira Interior
Companies involved: Volkswagen Autoeuropa, Delphi, Delta, Edia URL: http://xenofonte.demi.fct.unl.pt/unidemi/
Keywords: Lean management, Supply Chain Management, Green production, Resilient systems Abstract: A lean company means nearly zero inventories; a resilient company must have enough inventories to react to the effects of disruptions that may occur in a supply chain. These concepts seem to be contradictory. However, it would be ideal to have both systems working together in a company. These facts advice for further research in production and supply chain management; lean and resilient concepts require to be modelled on a compatibility basis. The main objective of this research project is to develop a deep understanding of interrelationships (conflicts and trade-offs) across lean, agile, resilient and green manufacturing paradigms, in the auto industry sector. This understanding is believed to be vital to turn these concepts really compatible. This achievement will provide an important contribution for a competitive and sustainable environment; its justification will be based on better “lean, agile, resilient and green production systems” at the company level, with implications at the overall supply chain level and its agents. The research will be centred on the investigation of the conditions to increase company resilience, without affecting (or significantly reducing) the maintenance of a lean manufacturing environment. In addition, it addresses the need to develop a design for environment system, to assure that the production system management is really sustainable and that it continues maintaining its lean benefits. The idea is to develop a model and methodologies to improve the organizational agility design, in order to speed-up the bridging between states that require more or less degree of resilience, at both the company and the supply chain levels. Overall objectives: The main objective of this project is to develop a deep understanding of the relationships required for the compatibility of Lean, Agile, Resilient and Green (manufacturing), in order to contribute to better production systems and supply chains.
These objectives are unfolded on the following sub-objectives:
1. To develop a Lean, Agile, Resilence and Green integrator prototype.
2. To investigate the integration of existing tools to be integrated on the prototype.
3. To develop a diagnostic framework based on actual models.
4. To develop a “management integrator” model.
5. To test the model on selected organizations.
6. To evaluate the possibilities to extend the model to other organizations outside the automotive industry and contribute to their dissemination.
7. To contribute for the development of product-service production systems, based on a “Lean, Agile, Resilience and Green” management approach, through a web site development, publishing of papers, and organization of conferences.
Highlights to date: 1. Publication of results in scientific journals and international conferences and national scientific and professional events
2. Organization of a major conference, involving speakers from industry and academia, to present case studies related with the project.
3. Dissemination of research prototypes using the WWW as open source applications.Researchers involved: PT Institutional Research Members: Virgílio António Cruz Machado (UNIDEMI – FCT/UNL), PI Rui Pulido Valente (UNIDEMI – Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre) António Manuel Ramos Pires (UNIDEMI – Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal) António Carlos Bárbara Grilo (UNIDEMI – FCT/UNL) Nuno Miguel Ribeiro Videira Costa (CENSE – FCT/UNL) Susana Maria Palavra Garrido Azevedo (NECE – UBI) Helena Maria Lourenço Carvalho Remigio (UNIDEMI – FCT/UNL) Virgínia Helena Arimateia de Campos Machado (UNIDEMI – FCT/UNL) Rogério Salema de Araújo Puga Leal (UNIDEMI – FCT/UNL) Isabel Maria Nascimento Lopes Nunes Investigador DOUTORAMENTO Ana Paula Ferreira Barroso (UNIDEMI – FCT/UNL) José António Mendonça Dias (UNIDEMI – FCT/UNL) Maria Paula Baptista Costa Antunes (CENSE – FCT/UNL) Rui Jorge Fernandes Ferreira dos Santos (CENSE – FCT/UNL) |
MIT researchers: LAI – Lean Advancement Initiative (Prof. Deborah Nightingale) MPP PhD/Master Students: Rui Pulido Valente (PhD thesis: Development model for the application of lean management in Portuguese industry clusters)
Helena Maria Lourenço Carvalho Remigio (PhD thesis: Resilience model for the lean supply chain management)
Natacha Cristina de Matos Correia (PhD thesis: Lean ergonomics)
Susana Carla Vieira Lino Medina Duarte (PhD thesis: Design of lean and green supply chains)
Izunildo Fernandes Cabral (MSc thesis: Lean interoperability systems)
Other Portuguese Researchers (PhD, Master, Post-Docs) in collaboration:
Manuel de Jesus Carrasqueira (PhD thesis: Modeling the lean organizational structure) Publications: Correia, Natacha, V. Cruz Machado and Isabel L. Nunes. Strategy in human performance management in lean environment’s. Fourth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Jiuping Xu, Hsin Rau and Yong Jiang. ICMSEM: November 15-17, 2010, Chungli, Taiwan, World Academic Press, World Academic Union, 554-557. Helena Carvalho., Susana Garrido Azevedo, Cruz-Machado., 2010. "Supply chain performance management: lean and green paradigms". International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling. Susana Duarte and V. Cruz Machado “Performance evaluation for lean supply chain: a balanced scorecard framework”, The International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS). Susana Duarte, Helena Carvalho and V. Cruz-Machado "Exploring relationships between supply chain performance measures", in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management, 2010, pp. 91-95. Chungli, Taiwan, November 15-17, 2010. Susana Garrido Azevedo, Helena Carvalho and V. Cruz-Machado "Green Supply Chain Management: A Case Study Analysis of the Automotive Industry", in APMS 2010 International Conference Competitive and Sustainable Manufacturing, Products and Services, Cernobbio, Como, Italy, 2010. Susana Garrido Azevedo, Helena Carvalho and V. Cruz-Machado "Pathways Between Lean and Green Paradigms and Supply Chain Performance", in APMS 2010 International Conference Competitive and Sustainable Manufacturing, Products and Services, Cernobbio, Como, Italy, 2010. Susana Garrido Azevedo, Helena Carvalho and V. Cruz-Machado "The influence of agile and resilient practices on supply chain performance: an innovative conceptual model proposal", in HICL 2010: Innovative Processes and Solutions in Logistics and SCM, Hamburg, Germany, 2010. Susana Garrido Azevedo, Helena Carvalho and V. Cruz-Machado "The influence of green practices on supply chain performance: a case study approach". Transportation research part E: logistics and transportation review, 2010. Correia, Natacha, V. Cruz Machado and Isabel L. Nunes. Case Study "Estratégia de Aplicação de Ferramentas de Apoio à Gestão do Desempenho Humano em Ambientes Lean", Colóquio Internacional de Segurança e Higiene Ocupacionais. 2010, SPOSHO (Sociedade Portuguesa de Segurança e Higiene Ocupacionais), 11-12 Fevereiro, Guimarães - Portugal, 163-137. Correia, Natacha, Virgilo Machado and Isabel L. Nunes. Case Study: Strategy in Human Performance Management in Lean Environment’s. IIE Annual Conference 2010: Industrial Engineering Research Conference. A. Johnson and J. Miller. June 5 - 9 Cancún, Mexico, Institute of Industrial Engineers. Correia, Natacha. Ergonomic Principles in the design of Lean Systems. Working Paper for Euroma Doctoral Seminar Porto, 9th EurOMA Doctoral Seminar - EurOMA 2010. Helena Carvalho e V. Cruz Machado; "Lean, agile, resilient and green supply chain: a review"; Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management; Bangkok, Thailand; 2-4 Nov, 2009; pp. 3-14. R. Pulido Valente, V. Cruz Machado, “A filosofia lean num contexto de mudança”, 9º Congresso Iberoamericano de Engenharia Mecânica, Proceedings (ISBN 978.84.692.8516.9), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Novembro 2009 Susana Duarte “Modeling lean and green supply chain management”, 9th EurOMA Doctoral Seminar on June 4-5, Porto, Portugal. V. Cruz-Machado and Susana Duarte “Tradeoffs among paradigms in Supply Chain Management”, in Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 9-10, 2010. Helena Carvalho and Cruz-Machado "Integrating lean, agile, resilience and green paradigms in supply chain management", submitted to Supply Chain Coordination and Management, 2010. Helena Carvalho, Susana Duarte, Cruz-Machado., 2010. "Lean, agile, resilient and green: divergencies and synergies", submitted to International Journal of Lean Six Sigma. Susana Duarte and V. Cruz Machado “Supply chain management: a review from a lean perspective, submitted to Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. |
