Abstract

Covid19 is spreading across the globe. This pandemic affects almost all sectors of activities. It has created disruptions in production chains around the world, which have gone as far as stopping production in certain domains and double capacities in the others. Covid19 created a surge demand of health care equipment that oblige flexible companies to switch their ordinary production lines to produce items related to this pandemic. The aim of our work is to study how technologies offered by the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) could help to overcome this crisis. Also, to analyze the impact of adopting lean management principles, more specifically the just in time (JIT) principle. For this objective, we conducted a rapid review on the existing publications in literature using the key words covid19, lean management and industry 4.0. Results show that emerging technologies have a big potential to help on combatting this epidemic. Moreover, companies have to minimize the risk of shortage of stock by overusing the JIT lean principle.