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| Zokaei, Keivan; Simons, David. |
| 'Lean' is an established industrial paradigm with proven track record in various sectors of the industry (Womack & Jones, 1996). World-class Companies such as Toyota (second biggest global car manufacturer), Porsche (most profitable global OEM), Boeing (largest global aerospace business) and Tesco (third largest global retailer) have adopted Lean at the corporate level. This paper reports on the introduction of 'Lean Thinking' to a new sector - the 'Red Meat Industry' (Food Chain Centre, 2004). This contribution highlights the benefits of lean production techniques in different stages of the red meat value chain and reports 2- 3% potential cost savings at each stage of the chain. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Lean process; Red meat industry; Takt-time; Work standardization; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8194 |
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| Hines, Peter; Zokaei, Keivan; Evans, Barry; Beale, Jo; Miele, Mara; Cole, Matthew A.. |
| The new found popular interest in sustainable development is highly skewed towards areas that are politically visible, such as transport and in particular the evils of air travel. This situation is mirrored in the academic community with an explosion of articles on sustainable transport (an EBSCO web search yielded 552 academic references to Sustainable Transport while for example Sustainable Livestock only found less than 10% of that number1). Nonetheless, only 14% of GHG’s actually result from transport, with as little as 2% coming from aviation, against 32% resulting from agriculture and land use – a major part of which can be directly attributed to the food chain (Stern, 2006). Moreover within the food system, certain areas such as livestock production... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49895 |
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