Preface -- Lean Manufacturing: Recent Trends, Research & Development and Education Perspectives -- A Case Study on Lean Product and Process Development -- Lean Product Development (LPD) enablers for product development process improvement -- Discussing and evaluating the green environmental performance of manufacturers -- A Simulation Study on Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chain Based On Theory of Constraint -- Mathematical Modelling with an Application to Nuclear Power Plant Reliability Analysis -- Gas Turbine Assimilation under Copula-Coverage Approaches -- Index.  .