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Abstract:

In the automotive industry, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) face the challenge of being innovative and lean at the same time. This ambidexterity influences their research and development strategy as well as their production system strategy. Considering that until today no consistent definition exists of innovation within the literature, a multidimensional approach is used in this work, which focuses on three main objectives to analyse the compatibility of lean and innovation. Within the theoretical background, innovations are characterised based on their origin (generated or adapted innovation), type (process, product or organisational innovation), and intensity (incremental or radical innovation). Embedding this characterisation into the lifecycle theories of industries, technologies, and products displays the resulting complexity and leads to the drawing of connections between state decisions (laws and regulations) and society (megatrends), thereby creating a holistic theoretical framework in which OEMs have to align their production system strategy.

Publications:

Burggräf P., Lorber C., Pyka A., Wagner J., Weißer T. (2020) Kaizen 4.0 Towards an Integrated Framework for the Lean-Industry 4.0 Transformation. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2019. FTC 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1070. Springer, Cham

Werrlich S., Lorber C., Nguyen PA., Yanez C.E.F., Notni G. (2018) Assembly Training: Comparing the Effects of Head-Mounted Displays and Face-to-Face Training. In: Chen J., Fragomeni G. (eds) Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: Interaction, Navigation, Visualization, Embodiment, and Simulation. VAMR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10909. Springer, Cham