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Thoughts on kaizen and its evolution: Three different perspectives and guiding principles
Manuel F. Suárez‐Barraza, Juan Ramis‐Pujol, Laoucine KerbacheSince Masaaki Imai coined the term Kaizen in the mid 1980s it has been regarded as a key element in the competitiveness of Japanese companies. However, even though Kaizen was…
Integration of Lean Six‐Sigma with ISO 9001:2008 standard
S. Karthi, S.R. Devadasan, R. MurugeshThe purpose of this paper is to present a framework for integrating Lean Six Sigma DMAIC methodology and belt based training infrastructure with ISO 9001:2008 standard based…
Japanese total quality control, TQM, Deming's system of profound knowledge, BPR, Lean and Six Sigma: Comparison and discussion
Andrea ChiariniThe purpose of this paper is to compare and discuss the evolution of six important management systems: Japanese Total Quality Control (JTQC), Total Quality Management (TQM)…
Selection of critical processes for “process improvement”
Ashok Sarkar, Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Sadhan Kumar GhoshThe purpose of this paper is to develop a criterion for selection of critical sub‐processes when all the sub‐processes cannot be taken up simultaneously for improvement. There…
Lean Six‐Sigma application in business process outsourced organization
Sanjit Ray, Boby JohnIn the service sector, reduction of cycle time is one of the key issues. Lean concepts and techniques are applied to increase the speed of operations. In many cases, improvement…
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- Prof. Jiju Antony