Kaizen Planning, Implementing and Controlling [Paperback]

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.

Section One: Concepts

 

1. Kaizen concepts

1.1 Kaizen concept

1.2 Lean manufacturing and kaizen

1.3 Kaizen evolution

1.4 Successful implementation cases reported

1.5 Traditional implementation process for kaizen

1.6 Book objective and delimitation

1.7 Chapter conclusions

References 

 

2. Kaizen: Literature review

   2.1 Critical success factors for kaizen

   2.2 Authors and research groups in kaizen

   2.3 Universities and departments studying kaizen

   2.4 Journals reporting kaizen studies

   2.5 Chapter conclusions

   References