Kaizen Planning, Implementing and Controlling

✍ Scribed by Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz, Midiala Oropesa-Vento, Aidé Aracely Maldonado-Macías (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Series: Management and Industrial Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reports a literature review on kaizen, its industrial applications, critical success factors, benefits gained, journals that publish about it, main authors (research groups) and universities. Kaizen is treated in this book in three stages: planning, implementation and control. The authors provide a questionnaire designed with activities in every stage, highlighting the benefits gained in each stage. The study has been applied to more than 400 managers and leaders in continuous improvement in Mexican maquiladoras. A univariate analysis is provided to the activities in every stage. Moreover, structural equation models associating those activities with the benefits gained are presented for a statistical validation. Such a relationship between activities and benefits helps managers to identify the most important factor affecting their benefits and financial income.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing....Pages 1-21
Literature Review....Pages 23-31
Adopting Kaizen....Pages 33-57
Methodology....Pages 59-78
Descriptive Analysis of the Sample....Pages 79-82
Descriptive Analysis of Items: Kaizen Planning Stage....Pages 83-91
Descriptive Analysis of Items: Kaizen Execution Phase....Pages 93-108
Descriptive Analysis of Items: Kaizen Control Phase....Pages 109-117
Descriptive Analysis of Kaizen Benefits....Pages 119-145
Validation of Variables....Pages 147-156
Kaizen Planning Phase Models: Activities and Benefits....Pages 157-192
Kaizen Execution Phase Models: Activities and Benefits....Pages 193-224
Kaizen Control Phase Models: Activities and Benefits....Pages 225-257
Back Matter....Pages 259-314

✦ Subjects

Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing;Production;Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences