Lean 4.0

About Lean 4.0

Lean Manufacturing is widely recognized as the preferred, tried and tested approach to create highly efficient processes in European industry. Its application has led to significant growth in productivity, revenue, employment, and sustainability across an array of sectors. Now, the fourth industrial revolution, which will change the way factories work, is a new challenge and opportunity for the European manufacturing industry in remaining highly innovative and competitive. Lean4Zero will educate the operations managers of the future. We anticipate the European manufacturing industry’s contemporary need for development of new skills brought along by “Industry 4.0”. More specifically, the labor market will require knowledge and experience with regard to the continuous improvement activities associated with Lean Manufacturing on the one hand, and the disruptive technological innovations of Industry 4.0 on the other. Lean4Zero is a collaborative initiative between four leading Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and four industrial enterprise to integrate Industry 4.0 smart technologies with the proven Lean Manufacturing paradigm. With a high dependency on innovation and new technology, the four partner countries face many of the same skill development challenges, and are each simultaneously preparing to address this significant gap in knowledge and practical experience. Together, the partners of Lean4Zero shall prepare European Manufacturing for the challenges that lie ahead.

- This project is co-funded by Erasmus+ programme of the European Union -

Lean4Zero will be the reference project on how to link HEI and industry using pilot implementations, where students, academic staff and industry practitioners collaborate to solve challenging, real-world problems, and share their experiences among HEIs and manufacturing companies throughout Europe.

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