Daryl Powell
Research Manager / Chief Scientist
Daryl Powell
Research Manager / Chief Scientist
Publications and responsibilities
All About Pull Production: Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Kanban, CONWIP, and other Pull Systems in Lean Production
Facilitating Operator Participation in Continuous Improvement: An Investigation of Organizational Factors
Continuous improvement (CI) is a fundamental part of lean thinking and practice and will remain critical for the success of manufacturing firms during the fourth industrial revolution. The realization of CI is based on the active participation and involvement of the firm’s entire workforce – with...
Investigating the challenges and opportunities for production planning and control in digital lean manufacturing
A Learning Roadmap for Digital Manufacturing
Organizational enablers for digitalization in manufacturing industry
Facilitating Operator Participating in Continuous Improvement
Value Chain Integration – A Framework for Assessment
Despite an abundance of research on the topic, firms continue to struggle with integrating their value chains in order to create and deliver more value to customers. Silo-thinking (rather than systems-thinking) is a typical symptom of poorly integrated value chains. In this paper, we explore the...
Rethinking lean supplier development as a learning system
Purpose This paper investigates developing a learning-to-learn capability as a critical success factor for sustainable lean transformation. Design/methodology/approach This research design is guided by our research question: how can suppliers learn to learn as part of a buyer-led collaborative...
Corporate Lean Programs: Practical Insights and Implications for Learning and Continuous Improvement
Since Lean Production was popularized in the 1990s, many manufacturers have developed and deployed corporate lean programs across their global factory networks. However, research reports that up to 90% of lean programs fail to succeed. Drawing on practical insights gained from the deployment of one...