... in a Brazilian company, mapping the production process with a flowchart and Pareto chart to identify defects in the t-shirt cutting sector. The light signal tool (andon) was then applied to visually expose quality problems, followed by brainstorming, kaizen and kata. Findings The results showed...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Kaizen Continuous improvement Lean production Job performance Continuous improvement (CI), also known as Kaizen using Japanese terminology (Hayes, 1981), is seen as “one of the activities whereby processes and procedures are implemented which...