This study was conducted at Glimek AB, a company that has chosen to decentralize its central storage unit in order to increase production efficiencies. The purpose of the study was to identify the problems in the production cycle that lead to the decision to decentralize the central storage unit, as well as identifying what the decentralization entails. The effects of the decentralization have not been analyzed in the study, and consequently neither financial nor production disadvantages have been considered.Appropriate questions were formulated based on the chosen underlying theories, and were asked to selected individuals with relevant knowledge. The study is based on the information that was gathered from interviews with management as well as staff within the company. In addition, supporting information such as flowcharts, drawings, orders and decision support documents were supplied by the company.

The goal of this project was to make the requirement process at the Swedish Coastguard more effective. The first step to achieve this was done by locating bottle necks in the process with value stream mapping method. The result of this study showed that the biggest restriction in the requirement process was while examining older requirement documents to understand what elements were suitable for the particular project. This was followed by a study of literature, interviews and theory of Lean Production with the ambition to investigate how the requirement process was handled on other companies and how to improve the process on the Swedish coast guard. This led to a number of potential enhancements of the process which later was evaluated. Requirements written by different people in different organizations were analyzed in order to sort out if there were some similarities? which could be used as standard elements in a future standardization of the process.

Tjänstesektorn utgör ungefär 80 % av Sveriges BNP, men har länge präglats av lägre produktivitet än tillverkningssektorn. Detta skulle kunna förändras genom konceptet lean som innebär effektivisering av flöden och syftar till att erbjuda kunden exakt vad den vill ha med hjälp av mindre insatser i form av personal, utrustning, tid, utrymme och aktiviteter. Nyttan med lean inom produktionssektorn är bevisad och effektiviteten förmodas öka två till tre gånger efter en implementering inom dessa företag. Konceptet hävdas även vara användbart inom tjänstesektorn och andra kontexter, men det råder fortfarande tvivel om effekten konceptet har på prestationer och lönsamhet i tjänsteorganisationer. Avsaknaden av sådana bevis har påverkat konceptets spridning utanför produktionsindustrin.

Rapporten består av en studie över köksproduktionen på ett stort svenskt bostadsföretag i Sverige. Studien är utförd med hjälp av verktyget värdeflödesanalys som är avsett för att hitta slöserier i en process. Processen som undersöks består av mottagning och inbärning av köken till lägenheterna samt hela montaget, i fyra olika projekt. Varje leverans är uppdelad i tre kök åt gången som kommer var fjärde dag. Denna leveranstakt är även den takttid som gäller för köksproduktionen, d.v.s.

Lean Production har blivit det produktionskoncept som många av dagens företag har som modell när de utformar sina produktionssystem. De första stegen mot ett flödesinriktat ?lean? produktionssystem tas ofta genom att transformera produktionen. Detta i sin tur ställer ökade krav på materialleveranser Just-In-Time, materialpresentation och låga lager. För den interna logistiken innebär inte sällan dessa krav betydande merarbete i form av t.ex.

Male piglets have been castrated for centuries to avoid contamination of their meat with boar taint, a strongly unpleasant odour that makes the meat inedible. Today boar taint can be prohib-ited by vaccination against gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) using Improvac®. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of vaccination on growth performance and behaviour of vaccinated male pigs compared to surgically castrated male pigs. The effect of two feeding regimes, restricted (SLU-norm) and semi ad libitum, was also included in the study. At birth, pigs (n=206) were randomly allocated to the two treatment groups; surgically castrated and vaccination.

The relationship between employer and employee is, from a judicial point of view, governed primarily by economic and employment contracts. However, a significant part of the dynamic is also dictated by tacit expectations and promises (so called psychological contracts). The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived organizational support (POS) and psychological contract violation. Primary hypothesis assumed that there was a correlation between higher perceived organizational support and a reduction of feelings of violation from psychological contract breach. It was also assumed that employment time, sex and past breach experiences correlated with feelings of violation.

There is a common belief that the arts contain knowledge of creativity that can enrich the business world. Similarly, the arts are in need of additional support from the private sector and know-how of business practices. In short, there is a need for mutual understanding. With my background as a dancer paired with my studies at the Stockholm School of Economics I have taken the challenge of bringing the two worlds closer together. By changing a social system, like an organization, it is possible to get a better understanding of it.

BÅEM Nordic Flanges AB är Nordens största producent och leverantör av flänsar. Flänsarna tillverkas av olika rostfria stål och företaget är specialiserade på att tillverka utifrån specifika kundkrav, men har även ett standardsortiment. På senare tid har den globala konkurrensen pressat företag att bli alltmer flexibla och ha kortare leveranstider, detta gäller nu också BÅEM Nordic Flanges AB. Förändringen för att åstadkomma detta kallas för Lean produktion vilket är en filosofi som slutligen ska ge ett smidigare och resurssnålare arbetssätt. Filosofin måste genomsyra hela företaget.

This paper aims to determine what is decisive for localisation of production units when a company engages in offshoring. By performing a case study on Electrolux and comparing the results with theoretical literature we discuss the implications for manufacturing companies in general. To facilitate a structured analysis we have developed a model dividing the localisation decision into five perspectives and four geographical levels. We have found that the determinants of localisation vary depending on the geographical level of the decision process. Since all geographical levels are interconnected, the analysis needed for a decision on all levels simultaneously is very comprehensive.

Titel: SMART ? Implementering av ett leankonceptNivå: C-uppsats i ämnet företagsekonomiFörfattare: Sara Myrzell & Lee FrimanHandledare: Lars Torsten ErikssonDatum: 2013-05-29Syfte: Syftet med detta examensarbete är att beskriva och analysera implementeringen av ettleankoncept i ett företag. Vi vill öka förståelsen för implementeringens starka och svaga sidoroch undersöka hur denna förändring påverkar personalen. Vi vill genom denna studie även fördjupa våra kunskaper om lean production, och bidra till den empiriska kunskapen om implementering av leankoncept i företag.Metod: Vi har gjort en fallstudie där vi först sökte sekundärdata om hur man på bästa sätt bör implementera ett nytt styrkoncept i en organisation. Detta gjorde vi genom att söka efter redan tillgänglig information i artiklar, vetenskapliga studier och böcker.

The main purpose of this essay is to investigate the legal position for employers concerning protection against what employees can express about one?s employer in social media.It may regard dissatisfaction concerning employment, tort or so-called whistleblowing. The spread through social media may be comprehensive and thus cause more damage to the employer.Employees within the public sector as well as in the private are protected by the liberty of speech, which is constitutional, even the protection of sources or the right to criticize can offer some protection. This gives the employees the possibility to widely express themselves in private social media as long as it can?t be classified as a violation, which per se is very rare.However, certain differences between the both sectors will be pointed out.There are still no constitutional rights regarding social media, but a grey area has emerged concerning the legal position.

The purpose of this study was to examine whether a L2 learner could correct or imitate structures of the language that they could not produce in written production defined by processability theori levels.The Informants had Arabic as their mother tongue. The study showed that the ability of correction developed slower than the capacity for imitation and the ability to written production. The ability of the correction developed by the duration of the stay. The result was a confirmation of theory formation in processability theory. Corrective elicitering could be developed into a useful diagnostic tool in the classroom and thus provide an education that followed a natural learning order according to processability theory by Pienemann.Keywords: processability theori, imitation, correction, written production.

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, OTEC, is a sustainable energy conversion technology that is not yet commercialized. OTEC is a technology that utilizes the temperature difference in oceans between the warm surface water and the cold water at 1 000 m depth to run a Rankine Cycle. This technology can produce electricity and provide synergies like fresh water, air conditioning and aquaculture. A simulation program for three alternative OTEC systems has been created in order to decide which OTEC system is most profitable; closed, open or hybrid system. In this simulation a production cost analysis is performed in order to investigate and decide which one of the three systems that has the lowest production cost. The production cost analysis also analyzes if the profitability is affected by the size of the facility. After these analyzes, the most profitable of the three different OTEC-systems is expanded by an installation of solar collectors in order to see if the thermal efficiency is improved. The result shows that the most profitable system varies with the size of the facility.

I denna rapport beskrivs effekterna av att införa flödesgrupper och andra Lean-principer i en verkstad med avseende på flexibilitet i volym och produktmix. Fallstudier har gjorts på tre tillverkningsföretag där man har infört flödesgrupper; Sandvik Coromant (Sandvik), Atlas Copco Tooling (Atlas) och Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE).Efter att ha analyserat resultaten från fallstudierna kan konstateras att företag med hjälp av flödesgrupper och andra Lean-principer kan öka flexibiliteten i produktionen. De besökta företagen har erhållit liknande fördelar med avseende på flexibilitet efter införandet av flödesgrupper. Efter införandet fick man en kortare total genomloppstid för produkterna i verkstaden, vilket är indirekt kopplat till flexibilitet i både volym och produktmix. Den minskade genomloppstiden kunde erhållas dels tack vare enklare materialflöden och mindre rörelsesträckor för operatörer när maskiner flyttades närmare varandra till flödesgrupper.