The purpose of the study was to investigate employee perceptions during a lean
transformation. 1 The combination of case study and survey methodologies was used to …

Kaizen events have been widely reported to produce positive change in business results
and human resource outcomes. However, sustaining or improving upon the results of a …

Kaizen events are an increasingly common organizational improvement mechanism aimed
at work area transformation and employee development. While many anecdotal design …

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling parts in job shop cellular manufacturing
systems by considering exceptional parts that need to visit machines in different cells and …

In today's competitive environment cellular manufacturing (CM) is a well-known strategy in
improving manufacturing performance. To obtain the full benefits that CM has to offer …

Increased demands of different products put some challenges to the production system
layout that are not well addressed by the job-shop neither flow-lines layout. Cellular …

Scheduling problem in a cellular manufacturing environment is treated as group scheduling
problem, which assumes that all parts in a part family are processed in the same cell and no …

ABSTRACT A firm's performance is a function of how well managers use quality
management practices to improve the quality of products and services. In today's global …

Seru Seisan, also called “beyond lean” in many Japanese manufacturing industries, is an
innovation of the production management mode in Japan. Although an increasing number of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to visualize the prioritization among essential factors of
cellular manufacturing system (CMS) implementation using the analytic hierarchy process …