Effect of quality lean manufacturing tools on commercial benefits gained by mexican maquiladoras

García Alcaraz J.L. ; Martínez Hernández F.A. ; Olguín Tiznado J.E. ; Realyvásquez Vargas A. ; Jiménez Macías E. ; Javierre Lardies C (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Companies implement lean manufacturing (LM) tools in their production processes to reduce waste; however, it is difficult to quantify the effect on benefits gained after their implementation. This article proposes a structural equations model (SEM) that relates three LM tools associated with quality as total quality management (TQM), waste, and right first time (RFT) as independent variables associated with commercial benefits gained as a dependent variable. Those four variables were related by six hypotheses that were validated with information from 169 responses to a survey applied to the Mexican maquiladora industry. Partial least squared was used to validate the hypotheses as direct effects. The sum of indirect and total effects was also estimated, and a sensitivity analysis was developed for relationships between variables. Findings indicate that TQM directly affects waste reduction, drives doing RFT, and directly and indirectly affects the commercial benefits gained.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/math9090971

Año: 2021

Publicado en: Mathematics 9, 9 (2021), 971 [15 pp.]
ISSN: 2227-7390

Factor impacto JCR: 2.592 (2021)

Categ. JCR: MATHEMATICS rank: 21 / 333 = 0.063 (2021) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 2.9 - Engineering (Q2) - Mathematics (Q2) - Computer Science (Q2)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.538 - Engineering (miscellaneous) (Q2) - Computer Science (miscellaneous) (Q2)

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)

Área (Departamento): Área Ingeniería Mecánica (Dpto. Ingeniería Mecánica)