A systematic review/survey for JIT implementation: Mexican maquiladoras as case study

Alcaráz, Jorge Luis García; Maldonado, Aide; Iniesta, Alejandro Alvarado; Robles, Guillermo Cortés; Alor-Hernández, Giner

doi:10.1016/j.compind.2014.02.013

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“…Hofer, Eroglu, and Hofer 2012;Bhasin 2013;Nawanir, Teong, and Othman 2013;Alcaraz et al 2014;Dora, et al 2014;Fullerton, Kennedy, and Widener 2014;Green et al 2014;Hong, Yang, and Dobrzykowski 2014;Wiengarten et al 2015). Differently from the majority of previous studies, our study was designed entirely for SMEs.…”

Section: Leanmentioning

confidence: 93%

Lean manufacturing in Brazilian small and medium enterprises: implementation and effect on performance

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Ganga

Gunasekaran

2016

International Journal of Production Research

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The main objective of this paper is to investigate the degree to which lean manufacturing (LM) practices are being implemented within Brazilian small and medium enterprises (SMEs), by defining what LM means, in the view of SMEs in Brazil. In addition, the paper investigates the relationship between LM implementation and performance of such companies. The research method used in this paper comprised of an exploratory survey using the partial least-square method with the structural equation modelling technique (PLS-SEM). The results show that the companies studied used practices in a fragmented manner, without a holistic view of LM, which is considered to be one of the most important parts of this approach. Only the constructs of statistical process control, total productive maintenance and employee involvement are being implemented as an integrated approach for Brazilian SMEs. These companies do not take other important constructs such as customer involvement, continuous flow, pull production, set-up time reduction, supplier development and supplier feedback into consideration as part of LM systems, despite using some practices in a dispersed manner. Concerning performance, the present study shows that even in a fragmented way, the implementation of these LM practices help these companies to achieve improvement in operational performance.

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Section: Leanmentioning

confidence: 93%

Lean manufacturing in Brazilian small and medium enterprises: implementation and effect on performance

Filho

Ganga

Gunasekaran

2016

International Journal of Production Research

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105

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“…In history, JIT has evolved over time (Chen and Tan, 2013;Alcaraz et al 2014). During the early periods of its development (before the 1990s), JIT was centered on the production control in shop floor.…”

Section: Jit Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…During the early periods of its development (before the 1990s), JIT was centered on the production control in shop floor. At that time, JIT focused on waste reduction and cost saving through material control and worker management (Alcaraz et al, 2014). Nowadays, people call the JIT production only applied in shop flow as "small JIT" (Jacobs and Chase, 2013).…”

Section: Jit Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Danese et al (2012) found that JIT can improve efficiency (e.g., per unit cost, inventory turnover and cycle time) and delivery (e.g., on time and fast delivery). Based on empirical data in Mexico firms, Alcaraz et al (2014) showed that JIT can improve quality, inventory and cost performance. Recently, Green Jr. et al (2014) showed that the total JIT which integrates JIT purchasing, JIT production and JIT selling can improve delivery, customer satisfaction, cost, and flexibility.…”

Section: The Effect Of Jit On Production Operations Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Inventory level is a very important measure for JIT or TQM, since implementing JIT or TQM can reduce inventory, especially, JIT emphasizes the concept of zero inventory, also, the higher the quality, the lower the scrape inventory. (Alcaraz et al, 2014;García et al2014) .…”

Section: (3) Production Operations Performance Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The relationships among JIT, TQM and production operations performance -an empirical study from Chinese manufacturing firms zhixiang chen Article information:To cite this document: zhixiang chen , (2015),"The relationships among JIT, TQM and production operations performance -an empirical study from Chinese manufacturing firms", Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 21 Iss 5 pp. -Permanent link to this document: http://dx.

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