Kaizen Perspective in Curriculum Development

Implementation of the System Handled in a Production Cell: Casa Study in a Metallurgical Company

“…Supplying products to a production line, warehouse, or customer, only when they are needed, is the idea of just in time. JIT is helpful when there is certainty of needs and demands, replacement times, small and known, products of great unitary value and which require a high level of control (Duran & Mertol, 2020) For the Japanese, JIT means "at the right time", "opportune". In English it means "in time", that is, "not exactly at the established moment, but a little earlier, with a certain amount of time".…”

“…In the Toyota System, production is based on zero stock, so it is equivalent to say that the processes must be replenished with the right items, in the right quantity and at the right time, according to the concept of just in time. Basically, producing goods and services at exactly the right time, not before, so that it does not become stock, and not after, so that there is no waiting on the part of customers, is the concept of JIT (Duran & Mertol, 2020).…”

Development of a New Conceptual Model for Improvement of the Quality Services of Higher Education Institutions in Academic, Administrative, and Research Areas

“…The Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) model, originating from Japanese manufacturing, centers on making small, incremental changes to enhance processes and systems over time [66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75]. When applied to higher education institutions, the impact and implications can be significant:…”

Establishment of Core Capacity and Capacity Index Based on an Outcome-Based Ideological and Political Education Major in Chinese Universities

“…"Success for All Students" is the notion on which OBE is based (Spady, 1994).Due to the mature development and enriched research of the OBE theory (Fe et al, 2017), it has become the norm of engineering education, and is widely implemented in the signatory countries of the Washington Agreement (Memon et al, 2009;Naveed Bin Rais, et al, 2021), including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, the Philippines, Japan, Australia and South Africa (Akir et al, 2012;Xu & Kuang, 2022;Zhou, 2022). Outcome-Based certification specifications and standards have been adopted (Felder & Brent, 2003) by most celebrated institutions (Sababha et al, 2021), including the Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan (IEET) (Cruz, 2022;Duran & Mertol, 2020) and the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) in response to the need of "continued improvement" (Duran & Mertol, 2020).The curriculum design of the OBE theory by Brown (1998) has been found to contribute to students' self-development and higher achievement (Cruz, 2022); therefore, the curriculum theory of reverse design can be included as a problem-solving method based on the curriculum development theory (Richards, 2013;Birney & McNamara, 2021). The OBE philosophy aims to cultivate application-orientated talents and provide important references and programmes for their professional development in order to meet the needs of economic and social progress by training talents in higher education (Gao et al, 2020).…”