外文翻译精益生产的定义一些概念和实践问题.docx
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外文翻译精益生产的定义一些概念和实践问题
本科生毕业设计
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学院:
管理学院
专业:
工商管理
Definingleanproduction:
someconceptualandpracticalissues
Author(s):
JosteinPettersen
Company:
DivisionofQualityTechnologyandManagementandHelixVINNExcellenceCentre,LinköpingUniversity,Linköping,Sweden
Citation:
TheTQMJournal,
Abstract:
Purpose–
Thepurposeofthispaperistoinvestigatethedefinitionofleanproductionandthemethodsandgoalsassociatedwiththeconceptaswellashowitdiffersfromotherpopularmanagementconcepts.
Design/methodology/approach–
Thepaperisbasedonareviewofthecontemporaryliteratureonleanproduction,bothjournalarticlesandbooks.
Findings–
Itisshowninthepaperthatthereisnoconsensusonadefinitionofleanproductionbetweentheexaminedauthors.Theauthorsalsoseemtohavedifferentopinionsonwhichcharacteristicsshouldbeassociatedwiththeconcept.Overallitcanbeconcludedthatleanproductionisnotclearlydefinedinthereviewedliterature.Thisdivergencecancausesomeconfusiononatheoreticallevel,butisprobablymoreproblematiconapracticallevelwhenorganizationsaimtoimplementtheconcept.Thispaperarguesthatitisimportantforanorganizationtoacknowledgethedifferentvariations,andtoraisetheawarenessoftheinputintheimplementationprocess.Itisfurtherarguedthattheorganizationshouldnotacceptanyrandomvariantoflean,butmakeactivechoicesandadapttheconcepttosuittheorganization'sneeds.Throughthisprocessofadaptation,theorganizationwillbeabletoincreasetheoddsofperformingapredictableandsuccessfulimplementation
Originality/value–Thispaperprovidesacriticalperspectiveonthediscoursesurroundingleanproduction,andgivesaninputtothediscussionoftheimplementationofmanagementmodels.
Keywords:
Leanproduction;Totalqualitymanagement
Article
Introduction
Wheninitiatingresearchconcerningtheconceptofleanproduction(LP)onelineofquestionsnaturallycomestomind:
“Whatislean?
Howisleandefined?
Howdoesleanrelatetoothermanagementconcepts?
Whatdoesleanhaveincommonwithothermanagementconcepts?
Whatdiscriminatesleanfromothermanagementconcepts?
”
Seekinganswerstothesequestions,willleadtotherealizationthattheyareexceedinglyhardtofind.Itseemslogicalthatamanagementconceptaspopularasleanshouldhaveaclearandconcisedefinition.Muchdisappointingly,thedefinitionofleanproductionishighlyelusive.Someauthorshavemadeattemptstodefinetheconcept(e.g.Lewis,2000;Hinesetal.,2004;ShahandWard,2007),whileothershaveraisedthequestionofwhethertheconceptisclearlydefined(seeDahlgaardandDahlgaard‐Park,2006;Engströmetal.,1996;Lewis,2000).
Ajustifiedquestioniswhethertheconvergentvalidityofleanactuallymakesanydifference–doesitmatterhowwedefinelean?
Therearevariousopinionsontheeffectsofthis.
Theabsenceofacleardefinitionhasanumberofconsequencesforpractitionersseekingtoimplementleanaswellasresearcherstryingtocapturetheessenceoftheconcept.Theseissueshavebeenaddressedbyanumberofresearchers.Thelackofadefinitionwillleadtocommunicationdifficulties(DaleandPlunkett,1991inBoaden,1997).Itwillcomplicateeducationonthesubject(Boaden,1997).Researchingthesubjectwillbedifficult(Godfreyetal.,1997;Parker,2003)–althoughBoaden(1997)statesthatthisisnotessential.Therewillalsobedifficultiesindefiningoverallgoalsoftheconcept(Anderssonetal.,2006).
Parker(2003)statesthatthemultitudeofinterpretationsonwhatleanreallyismakesithardertomakeclaimstowardstheeffectsoflean,thusincreasingtherequirementsthatresearchersspecifyexactlywhattheyareresearching.KarlssonandÅhlström(1996)pointoutthatthelackofaprecisedefinitionalsowillleadtodifficultiesindeterminingwhetherchangesmadeinanorganizationareconsistentwithLPornot,andconsequentlydifficultiesinevaluatingtheeffectivenessoftheconceptitself.
Purposeofthearticle
Themainpurposeofthisarticleistogiveapresentationofwhatleanproductionis.Thiswillbedonethroughareviewofcontemporaryliteratureonleanandsummaryofpracticesassociatedwithleanaswellasthestatedpurposeoftheconcept.Basedonthis,anevaluationoftheconstructvalidityofleanwillbemade.
Thepaperwillconcludewithadiscussionofthepracticalimplicationsoftheconstructvalidityoflean.
Researchapproach
HackmanandWageman(1995)reviewedtheTQMconceptandraisedthequestionof“whethertherereallyissuchathingasTQMorwhetherithasbecomemainlyabannerunderwhichapotpourriofessentiallyunrelatedorganizationalchangesareundertaken”.ThisisavalidquestionforanyconstructsimilartoTQM,andtheconceptofleanproductionisnoexception.FollowingthereasoningofHackmanandWageman,thisquestioncallsfortheevaluationoftheconcept'sconvergentanddiscriminantvalidity.HackmanandWageman(1995)describethetwokindsofvalidityasfollows:
Convergentvalidityreflectsthedegreetowhich[different]versions[oftheconcept][…]shareacommonsetofassumptionsandprescriptions.[…]
Discriminantvalidityreferstothedegreetowhich[theconcept]canbereliablydistinguishedfromotherstrategiesfororganizationalimprovement(HackmanandWageman,1995).
Inotherwords,thediscriminantvaliditytellsuswhetherornotaconceptcarriesanynewsvaluecomparedtootherexistingconcepts,whereastheconvergentvalidity,strictlyspeaking,tellsuswhetherornottheconceptitselfreallyexists.
Forthisarticle,thetwomajorcitationdatabasesISIandScopushavebeensearchedforarticlescontainingtheterms“leanproduction”or“leanmanufacturing”inthetopic,abstractorkeywords.The20mostcitedarticlesfromeachdatabasewereselectedforfurtherstudy.
Throughreadingtheseandotherarticlesonthesubject,themostinfluentialbookswereidentified.Thislistwasverifiedthroughusingthecitationanalysissoftware“publishorperish”.
Thereviewedliteraturewillbecomparedbylistingthecharacteristicsofleanpresentedbyeachauthor.Theideaisthatamethod,toolorgoalthatiscentraltoleanwillbementionedbyeveryauthoronthetopic.Thepurposeorgoalofleanshouldlogicallybethesameforallauthors.Concurrenceamongtheauthorswillsignifyahighconvergentvalidity.Ifleanpassesthisconvergentvaliditycriterion,anevaluationofthediscriminantvaliditycanbemade,basedonacomparisonwithTQM.HackmanandWageman(1995)concludedthatTQMpassedthetestsofbothconvergentanddiscriminantvalidity,makingitagoodconcepttocompareagainstleanproduction.
Literaturereview
Thetwodatabasesearchesproducedatotalof37articles(seeAppendix),ofwhich12ofthemcontainedpresentationsoftechniquesand/oroverallgoalsassociatedwithLP,thuscontributingtoaconceptualdiscussion.
The12articlesthataredeemedsuitableforafurtheranalysisareKrafcik(1988),Oliveretal.(1996),SánchezandPérez(2001),Lewis(2000),Mumford(1994),James‐MooreandGibbons(1997),MacDuffieetal.(1996),Dankbaar(1997),WhiteandPrybutok(2001),HayesandPisano(1994),JagdevandBrowne(1998)andCusumano(1994).
Anumberofbooksturnedupintheliteraturesearch.Aninvestigationofthebooks'citationrankingsledtoafilteringprocesswith13booksremaining.TheseareWomacketal.(1990),WomackandJones(2003),Bicheno(2004),Ohno(1988),Monden(1998),Liker(2004),Feld(2001),Dennis(2002),Schonberger(1982),Shingo(1984),RotherandShook(1998),JonesandWomack(2002)andSmalley(2004).
ThepublicationsbytheLeanEnterpriseInstitute(RotherandShook,1998;JonesandWomack,2002;Smalley,2004)areveryspecificoncertaintools(mainlyvaluestreammapping),andwerenotdeemedsuitableforaconceptualdiscussionaboutleaningeneral.
Anoverviewofleancharacteristics
TableIisapresentationofthemostfrequentlymentionedcharacteristicsofleaninthereviewedbooks.Characteristicsthathavebeendiscussedbylessthanthreeauthorshavebeenexcludedfromthepresentation.Thecharacteristicsinthetablearesortedbasedonfrequencyofdiscussioninthereviewedliterature.
Lookingatthetablerevealssomeinterestingaspectsabouttheideassurroundinglean.Theonlytwocharacteristicsthatallauthorsdiscussare“setuptimereduction”and“continuousimprovement”,indicatingthatthesearecentraltotheconcept.Ontheconditionthatpullproductioncanbeseenasaspecialcaseofjust‐in‐timeproduction,allauthorsliftthischaracteristicaswell.Failureprevention(pokayoke)andproductionleveling(heijunka)alsoseemtobecentralcharacteristicsofleanproduction.
AnalysisConvergentvalidityoflean
ThecharacteristicslistedinTableIhavesomerelationtooneanother,motivatinganaffinityanalysis.OnewayofgroupingthesecharacteristicsispresentedinTableII.
Throughgroupingthecharacteristicsamorehomogeneousimageoftheleancharacteristicsarises.Forallbutthreeofthegroupsallauthorshavediscussedatleastoneofthecharacteristicsinthegroup.InthegrouplabeledashumanresourcemanagementnoneofthecharacteristicsarediscussedbyauthorsBichenoandShingo.TheauthorsOhnoandSchonbergerhavenotdiscussedanyofthecharacteristicsinthegrouplabeledassupplychainmanagement.Furthermore,thebundledtechniqueshaveslightlylowerfigures.Thisindicatesthatthetwogroupshumanrelationsmanagementandsupplychainmanagementarenotdefinablecharacteristicsoflean,contrarytothefindingsofShahandWard(2003).Ho
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