A REVIEW ON KAIZEN IMPLEMENTATION IN NORTH INDIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIESPages 90-98
Nitesh Verma,
Abstract
In a competitive environment, lean manufacturing is one of the important factors in every industry. This lean manufacturing system is known as the Toyota production system. Kaizen is one of the lean manufacturing techniques which means “continuous improvement”. This technique can be used at any place like home, industry, etc. Its small improvements which lead us to get maximum output. It is a zero investment or minimum investment tool. The approach of the research includes a literature review about lean manufacturing techniques specially kaizen. This tool can be used in various manufacturing industries. It was concluded that the Implementation of kaizen is useful in eliminating MURA, 3M-MUDA, and MURI which means inconsistency, inconvenience, and wastage. There are some hardware and software enablers for Kaizen. Hardware enablers include policies, essential rules and institutional management. Software enablers include training, incentives etc. Proper implementation of kaizen can improve quality reduce complaints etc.
Keywords: Lean Manufacturing System,
Kaizen,
Functions of Kaizen,
PDCA & SDCA Kaizen,
Innovation.
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Simranjit Singh Sidhu, 
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