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Overview

Maneesh Kumar is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans interdisciplinary areas within Business, Management and Accounting, and Engineering.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Engineering

Within these fields, their subfields of expertise include:

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Strategy and Management
  • Management Information Systems
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Plant Science

The research topics that Maneesh Kumar focuses on are:

  • Quality and Supply Management
  • Digital Transformation in Industry
  • Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Service and Product Innovation
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management

Recent publications by the researcher include:

  • "Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0 integration for Operational Excellence: evidence from Italian manufacturing companies," 2020, Production Planning & Control
  • "COVID-19 outbreak: implications on healthcare operations," 2020, The TQM Journal
  • "Reinforcement learning for facilitating human-robot-interaction in manufacturing," 2020, Journal of Manufacturing Systems
  • "Designing lean value streams in the fourth industrial revolution era: proposition of technology-integrated guidelines," 2020, International Journal of Production Research
  • "What is Quality 4.0? An exploratory sequential mixed methods study of Italian manufacturing companies," 2021, International Journal of Production Research

Maneesh Kumar frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Guilherme Luz Tortorella
  • Nick Rich
  • Pauline Found
  • Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues
  • Andrea Chiarini

The scholar's frequent publication venues include:

  • Production Planning & Control
  • International Journal of Operations & Production Management
  • International Journal of Production Research
  • Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management
  • International Journal of Production Economics

In addition to journal articles, Maneesh Kumar has contributed to book publications. One notable title is "Lean Six Sigma: Research and Practice," published in 2021 by Concordia University.

Best Publications

  • Six sigma in small‐ and medium‐sized UK manufacturing enterprises: Some empirical observations

    Jiju Antony;Maneesh Kumar;Christian N. Madu

  • Implementing the Lean Sigma framework in an Indian SME: a case study

    Maneesh Kumar;Jiju Antony;Ritesh Kumar Singh;Manoj Kumar Tiwari

  • Six sigma in service organisations: Benefits, challenges and difficulties, common myths, empirical observations and success factors

    Jiju Antony;Frenie Jiju Antony;Maneesh Kumar;Byung Rae Cho

  • Lean Six Sigma for higher education institutions (HEIs): Challenges, barriers, success factors, tools/techniques

    Jiju Antony;Netasha Krishan;Donna Cullen;Maneesh Kumar

  • Operational performance and critical success factors of lean manufacturing in European food processing SMEs

    Manoj Kumar Dora;Maneesh Kumar;Dirk Van Goubergen;Adrienn Molnar

  • Determinants and barriers to Lean implementation in food processing SMEs- a multiple case analysis

    Manoj Kumar Dora;Maneesh Kumar;Xavier Gellynck

  • Comparing the quality management practices in UK SMEs

    Maneesh Kumar;Jiju Antony

  • Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0 integration for Operational Excellence: evidence from Italian manufacturing companies

    Andrea Chiarini;Maneesh Kumar

  • Common myths of six sigma demystified

    Maneesh Kumar;Jiju Antony;Christian N Madu;Douglas C Montgomery

  • Gearing Six Sigma into UK manufacturing SMEs: results from a pilot study

    Jiju Antony;Maneesh Kumar;A Labib

  • Six Sigma implementation framework for SMEs – a roadmap to manage and sustain the change

    Maneesh Kumar;Jiju Antony;Manoj Kumar Tiwari

  • Application of lean practices in small and medium-sized food enterprises

    Manoj Kumar Dora;Dirk Van Goubergen;Maneesh Kumar;Adrienn Molnar

  • Does size matter for Six Sigma implementation?: Findings from the survey in UK SMEs

    Maneesh Kumar;Jiju Antony;Alex Douglas

  • COVID-19 outbreak: implications on healthcare operations

    Higor Leite;Claire Lindsay;Maneesh Kumar

  • Project selection and its impact on the successful deployment of Six Sigma

    Maneesh Kumar;Jiju Antony;Byung Rae Cho

  • Food quality management system: reviewing assessment strategies and a feasibility study for European food small and medium-sized enterprises

    Manoj Kumar Dora;Maneesh Kumar;Dirk Van Goubergen;Adrienn Molnar

  • Application of Six Sigma DMAIC methodology in a transactional environment

    Jiju Antony;Anmol Singh Bhuller;Maneesh Kumar;Kepa T Mendibil

  • Linking learning and knowledge creation to project success in six Sigma Projects: An empirical investigation

    V. Arumugam;Jiju Antony;Maneesh Kumar

  • Implementation of continuous improvement based on Lean Six Sigma in small- and medium-sized enterprises

    Werner Timans;Kees Ahaus;Rini van Solingen;Maneesh Kumar

  • Winning customer loyalty in an automotive company through Six Sigma: a case study

    Maneesh Kumar;Jiju Antony;Frenie Jiju Antony;Christian N. Madu

  • Reinforcement learning for facilitating human-robot-interaction in manufacturing

    Harley Oliff;Ying Liu;Maneesh Kumar;Michael Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiju Antony
Jiju Antony Northumbria University
Manoj Kumar Tiwari
Manoj Kumar Tiwari Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Xavier Gellynck
Xavier Gellynck Ghent University
V Kumar
V Kumar Brock University
Mohamed Mohamed Naim
Mohamed Mohamed Naim Cardiff University
Guilherme Luz Tortorella
Guilherme Luz Tortorella University of Melbourne
Zoe Radnor
Zoe Radnor Aston University
Christian N. Madu
Christian N. Madu Pace University
Krishna Murari Pandey
Krishna Murari Pandey National Institute Of Technology Silchar
Pradeep Das
Pradeep Das Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences

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