7th International Scientific-Technical Conference - MANUFACTURING 2022, Poznan (Poland). 16-19 May 2022
Summary:
In 2016 marked the 30th anniversary of the publication of Masaaki Imai's book: “Kaizen. The Key to Japanese Competitive Advantage”, so conducting a review of the literature to determine value and trend conclusions became essential for the academic arena. The purpose of this article is to carry out a review of the Kaizen literature, exploring and analyzing the articles presented by the term in the last 30 years (1986–2020). Although clearly from 1986 to 2016 are 30 years, the latest advances in Kaizen were included in the three years that we have been in the second decade of the millennium, that is, until 2019 (33 years) to cover all the possible research in these two decades. Our findings explore quantitative and qualitative arguments and proposition. Therefore, according to the literature we detected five evolutionary stages of the Kaizen concept throughout the year.
Keywords: Kaizen; Literature review; Research trends; Kaizen philosophy; Meta-analysis
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00218-2_13
Published in Advances in Manufacturing III, vol: 3 - Quality Engineering: Research and Technology Innovations, Industry 4.0, pp: 154-168, ISBN: 978-3-031-00166-6
Publication date: 2022-05-10.
Citation:
M.F. Suárez-Barraza, J.A. Miguel-Dávila, M.F. Morales Contreras, KAIZEN: an ancestral strategy for operational improvement: literature review and trends, 7th International Scientific-Technical Conference - MANUFACTURING 2022, Poznan (Poland). 16-19 May 2022. In: Advances in Manufacturing III: Proceedings of International Scientific-Technical Conference MANUFACTURING 2022, vol. Vol. 3 - Quality Engineering: Research and Technology Innovations, Industry 4.0, ISBN: 978-3-031-00166-6
