The implementation and use of the "5s" and Kaizen program for the management of sewing offices of a middle family company

• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Wagner
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Bassi, Edson, Bertosse, Jéssica Fernanda, Saes, Rafael Mestre, Achcar, Jorge Alberto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Independent Journal of Management & Production
• Texto Completo: http://www.ijmp.jor.br/index.php/ijmp/article/view/726
• topic: Kaizen; 5S; Statistic; Productivity; Quality.

A century that defined the price of its product was the company. Today, in the 21st century, who defines the price is the market. That is why one of the managers' roles today is to look after maintenance and seek continuous improvements in order to reduce costs so that profits are maintained or raised. This article deals precisely with this, through the statistics applied to performance and quality indicators. Before starting the kaizen process, this article discusses the implementation of 5S in the target company of the case study in order to organize and standardize the processes. After 5S, the kaizen was implanted and data were collected that were treated statistically. It was concluded that the system was confirmed by the statistical results after the treatment and analysis of the data, and that the main purpose of these two tools, 5S and Kaizen, is to improve competitiveness and why not say, Have more assurance of the company's sustainability.