Towards ‘Lean Industry 4.0ʹ – Current trends and future perspectives

The enterprises to be competitive are constantly looking for continuous of productivity, quality and level of services. With the development of 4. 0 concept, manufacturers are more confident about new advantages of and systems integration. Lean management is well developed and proven effective managerial approach. Combining Lean and Industry 4. 0 seems to be necessary evolutionary step for further raise the level of excellence (exploitation of finance, workload, materials, machines/). There is an increasing number of Industry 4. 0 solutions used to reduce (as known from Lean Management). Therefore, the main objective of this aims at presenting the results of a literature review on the concept of ‘Lean 4. 0ʹ. Dynamic methodology called “Systematic Literature Network Analysis (SLNA) ” was used. It combines the Systematic Literature Review approach with the analysis of bibliographic networks to detect emerging topics and the evolution of the topics. The paper is a comprehensive systematization and of knowledge about the integration of LM and I4. 0 concepts, identifies the most important research trends and defines directions for future research. article contains a framework that presents the current state of knowledge in area of Lean Industry 4. 0.