Industry 4.0 promises to make manufacturing processes more efficient using modern technologies like cyber-physical systems, internet of things, cloud computing and big data analytics. Lean Management (LM) is one of the most widely applied business strategies in recent decades. Thus, implementing Industry 4.0 mostly means integrating technologies in companies that already operate according to LM. However, due to the novelty of the topic, research on how LM and Industry 4.0 can be integrated is still under development. This paper explores the synergic relationship between these two domains by identifying six examples of real cases that address LM-Industry 4.0 integration in the extant literature. The goal is to make explicit the best practices that are being implemented by six distinct industrial sectors such as automotive, paper, furniture, healthcare, apparel, and machine manufacturing.
The paper contains proposals of improvement concerning implementation of the 5S method. For that purpose there were used some selected techniques of manufacturing management: team work as well as the cause and effect Ishikawa diagram. The analysis of a pilot implementation was done in one of companies located in south–east Poland by a team which consisted of workers involved in that implementation and external experts. The results of analysis were used for the improvement of approach to implementation of the 5S method in the company. Presented methodology as well as obtained results can assist in implementation of the method in other companies.
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