Continuous Improvement through Kaizen in a Manufacturing Organisation

  Dr. Ravi Shankar Kalva,  Dr.A.Prabhu Kumar,  V.Srinivasu

In the times when the economic performance and sustainable management are representing two of the most challenging characteristics of the business environment, there are some methods and techniques that passed the test of time. Currently, the issue of the quality is one of the most debated. The most important theme is represented by the way in which organizations are able to build a competitive strategy based on quality products and services in the circumstances of the increasing pace of competition. This paper proposes to bring into question the continuous improvement of the quality, productivity, profitability and speed of response to each job, processes and organizations as a whole, taking permanently into account the operational excellence, obtained by increasing the added value and by loss elimination that can be achieved by addressing the concept of Kaizen and Kaizen management as well. The great majority of companies are using in the present the Kaizen Business System, a system of management which has been expanding in all over the world, by having and implying the power of continuous improvement and standardization. Having as “role-model” the well-known Toyota Production System, Kaizen Business System has become the fundamental way of managing a business, which led to the creation of personalized management systems for companies. The main objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of implementing a Kaizen management for organizations that are oriented towards quality and continuous improvement given the fact that in order to succeed organizations have to implement and maintain this kind of practices.

Keywords- quality management, continuous improvement, Kaizen, Kaizen event, Kaizen management.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1801044
Page Number(s) - 273-277
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 1 | January 2018
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Dr. Ravi Shankar Kalva,  Dr.A.Prabhu Kumar,  V.Srinivasu,   "Continuous Improvement through Kaizen in a Manufacturing Organisation", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 1, pp.273-277, January 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1801044.pdf