Kaizen Events: Assessing the Existing Literature and Convergence of Practices

Glover, Wiljeana Jackson; Farris, Jennifer A.; Aken, Eileen M. Van

doi:10.1080/10429247.2014.11432003

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“…The combination of successive PDCA cycles and an improvement ramp along a single KE was selected as it presents a structured way for people who have never undergone process improvement projects before. It addresses the statement of Glover et al [21] that deploying KE in a systematic and more frequent manner provides conditions for success. It consists of a series of sequential improvement cycles within a single KE (Figure 1).…”

Section: Enhanced Kaizen Event Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Researchers have studied the reasons behind this and concluded that many of the factors are centered around resistance to change due to lack of employee training and participation, lack of management involvement, lack of incentives, and lack of experience [16][17][18][19]. Nevertheless, some researchers argue that LT is well on its way to being validated in healthcare [20] and others have reported the benefits of implementing LT in healthcare [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][21][22][23][24].…”

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confidence: 99%

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An Enhanced Kaizen Event in a Sterile Processing Department of a Rural Hospital: A Case Study

Nino

Chipperfield

Valladares

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Operating Rooms (ORs) generate the largest revenues and losses in a hospital. Without the prompt supply of sterile surgical trays from the Sterile Processing Department (SPD), the OR would not be able to perform surgeries to its busy schedule. Nevertheless, little emphasis has been brought in the medical literature to research on surgical instrument processing in the medical literature. The present study was done applies an Enhanced Kaizen Event (EKE) in the SPD of a rural hospital to identify sources of waste and minimize non-value-added steps in the SPD processes. The EKE consisted of three successive Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycles, which focused on improvements at the departmental level first, then at an area level, and finally at the station level. The EKE yielded an improved streamlined workflow and a new design for the SPD layout, one of its areas, and a workstation. This paper aims at building a methodology, including identified steps. Results exhibited a 35% reduction in travel distance by the staff, eliminating non-value-added processes, reducing errors in the sterilization process, and eliminating cross-contamination for sterilized materials.

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Section: Enhanced Kaizen Event Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Enhanced Kaizen Event in a Sterile Processing Department of a Rural Hospital: A Case Study

Nino

Chipperfield

Valladares

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…Bibliographic reviews were considered the first step for conducting scientific studies, whose objective is to reach a good understanding of the state of the art by synthesizing existing knowledge in a reproducible way (Tranfield et al 2003;Glover et al 2014). Although there are limitations in its methodology, this type of review provides a reasonably detailed description of the body of the research carried out within the topic analyzed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage: Bibliometric Overview

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This paper reviews the academic literature related to religious tourism through a bibliometric study and citations of articles indexed in the multidisciplinary database Web of Science (WoS). Through an advanced search by terms, a representative set of 103 documents that form the ad-hoc basis of the analysis were selected. In view of the results, it is concluded that the United States is at the forefront of research, with almost 20% of the articles affiliated to one of its centres, mainly university centres. Publications on religious tourism are currently in an exponential growth stage, supported by the annual increase in the number of citations received. These papers are published in a small number of journals well positioned in their JCR category, classified within the field of Social Sciences Research.

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“…Now increasing the popularity of kaizen study as a process improvement. The kaizen case study literature has also increased Glover et al [2] because kaizen implementation in any company always improve to process. In Toyota company continuous improvement have done through kaizen For example in Toyota it has been find out not only the working team but also product / process design engineers involve in kaizen and it is important to good coordination between the design and engineering department [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

Productivity Improvement By Kaizen: A Case Study In A Tyre Company

Nagaich¹,

Sahu²

2020

IEJ

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Today intense competition conditions in the market and customers expectation increasing continually. So companies have required to increase the product quality continually, insure profitability, decrease the cost in all process and improve productivity in all process. Productivity shows to the how efficiently the resources are transforming into useful goods and services. The automobile sectors today using to the kaizen process for continuous improvement, where "KAI" (change) and "ZEN" (better) called by Japanese, which means better change. The kaizen approach eliminates to the unnecessary activities and it improves to low performance activity. This study describes a kaizen application in tyre building process during bead setting operation in production department of a CEAT tyre company. The effect of kaizen implementation in a tyre company during the bead setting process is that, the number of scrap reduced and breakdown time reduced from 20.02 hrs /month to 9.88 hrs/month as a result production of product improved by 608 tyres/month. After the implementation of kaizen approach productivity improved by 1.45%.

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Kaizen Events: Assessing the Existing Literature and Convergence of Practices

Cited by 40 publications

References 45 publications

An Enhanced Kaizen Event in a Sterile Processing Department of a Rural Hospital: A Case Study

An Enhanced Kaizen Event in a Sterile Processing Department of a Rural Hospital: A Case Study

Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage: Bibliometric Overview

Productivity Improvement By Kaizen: A Case Study In A Tyre Company

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