Enrique, DaisyGuimarães, AndréEstácio Marques Mendes Gaspar, Daniel AugustoReis, PedroCardoso, Antonio J. Marques2026-02-192026-02-192024-07http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/9697Organizations worldwide in asset management and engineering consistently strive to eliminate waste through approaches like Lean and adopting core functions through concepts like Value Engineering (VE). Several authors affirmed that integrating VE with Lean can enhance, streamline, and amplify efforts to implement Lean principles in an organization. Conversely, Lean can enhance the effectiveness of VE initiatives. Therefore, based on a literature review using a natural language processing algorithm, our study focused on understanding the intersection between those two concepts. Eight main sub-topics related to Lean Manufacturing and Value Engineering were identified within three major topics. Publications on Lean Healthcare have centered on enhancing the patient experience and offer a potential pathway for incorporating Value Engineering (VE) and Lean in the future. However, there is a lack of research on applying Value Engineering in conjunction with Lean within this domain. Consequently, this presents an opportunity for future research.engLean productioLean toolsValue EngineeringCustomer Valueconference paper2026-02-13cv-prod-4075623