Due to rising global competition and major changes in consumer demands, preferences, tastes, many businesses today use the Japanese management technique known as Kaizen adjust their production processes meet these expectations. The sole goal of this study was improve overall productivity medium-scale industries by integrating kaizen philosophy into process. Most learning exercises carried out p...

Masaaki Imai, 1997 yılında yayımladığı “Gemba Kaizen” adlı eserinde etkin ve verimli bir üretim sistemi işletebilmek için ilgili süreçlerde beş altın kuralın uygulanması gerektiğini belirtmektedir. Çalışmada ayrıntılı incelenen bu kurallar sırasıyla sorunu yerine gidip teşhis etmek, tüm yönleriyle görmek kontrol geçici önlemler almak, soruna neden olan sebebi bulup çözmek aynı türden hataların ...

The paper utilises a form of Action Research, known as the ‘Constructive Research Approach’ (CRA), to explore how project teams could engender development process improvement (PI) routines in higher education context. methodology Mediated Discourse Analysis (MDA), an ethnographic approach researching practice, is used trace PI over time. findings showed that owners and actors who were engaged b...

The energy crisis, an increasing concern of the industrial sector, is characterized by increased costs and low availability. As part effort to increase efficiency, present study assessed impact applying lean tools on consumption a manufacturing organization. Using Kaizen approach, organization’s processes were analyzed identify main vulnerabilities make required changes performance. Several tec...

In today's highly competitive manufacturing industry, achieving sustainable success requires constant innovation and cost optimization. Two proven methodologies for these goals are Kaizen Target Costing. Kaizen, a Japanese concept that translates to "continuous improvement," focuses on optimizing processes eliminating waste achieve maximum efficiency. Costing, the other hand, is management appr...

This paper presents a process model describing how a Kaizen team collectively creates innovation and improvement ideas for a production system and a protocol analysis approach based on the model. The process model captures the team-based creative problem solving practice as a process of updating a shared mental space comprising production system mental models (PSMMs) through exchanging utteranc...

Lebanese industries are growing so fast and expanding their businesses while managing their time, inventory, labor, quality and other production factors in order to increase productivity and output while reducing waste. For that, lean manufacturing aims to reduce the inventory and gain more profits while getting a better quality of the goods delivered to the customers. The aim of this Article i...