1214 NextShip - Lean Shipbuilding. State of the art and potential to be "lean" in multifariously distributed maritime design, engineering and construction

This report surveys a selection of historical and domain specific articles and essays pertaining to lean shipbuilding and high value adding manufacturing in general. It purports to give an impression of the fields state of art, with an empirical backdrop and some critical reflections, which may in the next instance serve as a vantage point for a topology of this class of management ideologies.