Literature Review, Research Issues and Future Perspective of Relation between Industry 4.0 and Lean Manufacturing

Abstract

The paper presents systematic literature review related to the link between Industry 4.0 and Lean Manufacturing. The aim of the paper is to map a robustness of the theory related to the issue, analyze the sources, assign them according to particular criteria, discover insufficiently researched areas and determine hypotheses for a practical perspective of their integration. The methodology is based on the systematic literature review approach. Firstly, a historical context of production management approaches is presented together with an introduction of Industry 4.0 and Lean Manufacturing. Then the methodology is introduced. The next part of the paper describes the literature review followed by its results. The end of the paper belongs to the conclusion containing the results summarization and the determined hypotheses for further research. Findings related to the robustness of the research topic, the time relevance of the issue and the found opinion streams of the relation between both approaches are the main results of the paper. Based on the results, it was concluded that the widest group of authors sees Industry 4.0 as a support for new level of Lean Manufacturing and this finding affects the way of their practical integration and Industry 4.0 implementation.