<p>Problem: How is Lean, a production-focused model being applied to non-productive focused industries.</p><p>Purpose: To examine how Lean has been applied to the department of Turbuhaler-Kvalitetskontroll and which parts have been successfully applied.</p><p>Problem statement: How does the implementation of Lean’s basic concept, which originated in the car industry, differentiate itself from the implementation of Lean in the pharmaceutical industry, in this case the department of Turbuhaler-Kvalitetskontroll at AstraZeneca.</p><p>Conclusions: The department has had success in its implementation of lean. They have developed and modified the basic concept in order to apply it and excluded the parts they did not consider necessary. Through their work they have accomplished numerous improvements in, among other things, the reduction of lead time. </p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:sh-2162 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Paredes, Alicia, Magnfält, Emma |
| Publisher | Södertörn University College, School of Business Studies, Södertörn University College, School of Business Studies |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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