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Future 22.12.2025

Lean thinking has always aimed to create smoother flow, reduce waste, and improve value creation. Today, digital technologies are expanding the possibilities of what lean can achieve. While lean traditionally relies on visual management, teamwork, and stable processes, modern technologies such as sensors, automation, advanced analytics, and digital modeling now offer new levels of visibility and…

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automation 22.12.2025

Polarion ALM is a web-based project management platform that helps teams keep communication and documentation unified throughout a project. In my thesis, I explored how Polarion can be used to digitalize the processes of Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), a project-planning method widely used in engineering and construction. By working with Polarion’s work items, Live Reports, documents, and workflows…

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Future 22.12.2025
Lean transformation does not begin with tools or technology. It begins with people. Across industries, organizations often learn that lean...
Future 19.12.2025
Lean thinking has grown into a cross-industry movement yet implementing it successfully remains far from simple. Although the principles of...
Future 19.12.2025
Lean thinking is entering a new era. For decades, companies relied on lean to reduce waste, improve flow, and create...
Competence 19.12.2025
Introduction Lean thinking has grown into one of the most influential improvement philosophies of the modern industrial era. What began...