The purpose of this paper was to determine the feasibility of lean manufacturing Kaizen Teams approach to help the plastic manufacturing industry in terms of continuous improvement. The data was collected from 217 employees working in the plastic manufacturing company. The data was obtained via a survey questionnaire that was developed on a likert scale. Lean manufacturing focuses on reducing waste and improving efficacy in the manufacturing process whereas, the Kaizen team framework is based on the identification of improvement processes. The findings of the study were obtained via SPSS and it revealed that there is significant correlation between Kaizen methods and quality improvement, product improvement, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and supplier.
Track: Doctoral Dissertation Competition
Published in: 2nd Australian International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: IEOM Society International
Date of Conference: November 14
-16
, 2023
ISBN: 979-8-3507-1732-7
ISSN/E-ISSN: 2169-8767