An environmental perspective on Lean production

摘要: To cope with the challenges of business environment companies strive to reorganize their production certain principles and methods in sense Lean Production. Whereas these measures are naturally primarily motivated by classical objectives like cost, time, quality or flexibility, also face diverse originally environmentally driven which incorporate a strong economic relevance. However, Production not necessarily friendly. Thus, there may exist conflicts goals for companies. Against this background, paper presents an analysis coherences interdependencies between ecologically oriented variables specifically energy consumption. Besides discussion regarding environmental influence, simulation approach is used analyze specific effects on as well manufacturing line.