Despite the anecdotal recognition of factors that may influence Kaizen outcome sustainability, there has been little empirical investigation of sustainability determinants. This research reports on the preliminary sustainability results from one manufacturing organization. The organization is participating in an ongoing field study of Kaizen events containing multiple manufacturing organization...

The present study aims to investigate the mediating role of Kaizen in the relationship between total quality management and organization’s performance. The research method is descriptive-survey and the statistical population of the research is the employees of the district of five Shiraz gas transmission operations, which is equal to 138 people. According to the Cochran formula, 102 senior mana...

Predicting the properties of materials like concrete has been proven a difficult task given the complex interactions among its components. Over the years, researchers have used Statistics, Machine Learning, and Evolutionary Computation to build models in an attempt to accurately predict such properties. Highquality models are often non-linear, justifying the study of nonlinear regression tools....

This paper explores the relationship between five LM methods (JIT, TPM, Autonomation, VSM and Kaizen) three IoT technologies (RFID, WSN Middleware) implications that arise from their combination. Four hypotheses four complimentary research questions were formulated tested. 136 responses obtained through a questionnaire survey analysed using descriptive statistics, 2-Sample proportion, Kruskal-W...

Thousands of small and medium scale industries are present in India. All are facing certain problems resulting in shortage of production and quality issues. This case study deals with the kaizen implementation in an industry in an assembly line in India that manufactures front and rear axle for heavy and medium vehicles. Kaizen technique has tremendous effect on operations of a firm, including ...