An actual study about the implementation of holistic production systems in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) illustrates the desire of most SMEs to realize a clearly structured and high performance production. The study shows up great difficulties due to lack of methodological expertise in the context of a production system implementation [1]. For this reason, the University of Applied Sciences Landshut developed a framework for methods which is part of the “Landshuter Produktionssystem (LPS): CLean Production - Lean & Clean”. The ‘methods-wheel’ concept enables the comprehensible, systematic and complete presentation of all necessary methods and tools for the LPS. Thus, the situational correct selection of methods is facilitated as well as the desired clarity and transparence is given. By integrating the methods-wheel in the overall context of the LPS interactions between goals, principles, methods and operational processes will be illustrated. As a consequence, the ...
