Interrelations among SMED Stages: A Causal Model
Mexico has received a lot of foreign investment that has brought in a wide range of novel production philosophies, such as Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED). Despite its popularity and reported effectiveness, Mexican companies often quit SMED implementation as they consider it challenging. This...
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| description | Mexico has received a lot of foreign investment that has brought in a wide range of novel production philosophies, such as Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED). Despite its popularity and reported effectiveness, Mexican companies often quit SMED implementation as they consider it challenging. This usually happens when organizations are not familiarized enough with each one of the SMED stages or do not know how they are interrelated. In this article the interrelations among the different SMED implementation stages by means of a structural equations model are analyzed. Data for constructing the model were gathered from a survey administered to 250 employees from the Mexican maquiladora industry. The survey assessed the importance of 14 activities belonging to the four SMED stages. The descriptive analyses of these stages were conducted and integrated into a structural equations model as latent variables, to find their level of dependency. The model was constructed using WarpPLS 5 software, and direct, indirect, and total effects among variables are analyzed and validated. Results from the model revealed that Stage 1 of SMED implementation, known as the Identification Stage, has both direct and indirect effects on all the other SMED stages, being the most important stage. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-847a00d98fbe45bdab4f05ec63fc51c52025-08-20T02:08:42ZengWileyComplexity1076-27871099-05262017-01-01201710.1155/2017/59129405912940Interrelations among SMED Stages: A Causal ModelJosé Roberto Díaz-Reza0Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz1José Roberto Mendoza-Fong2Valeria Martínez-Loya3Emilio Jiménez Macías4Julio Blanco-Fernández5Department of Electrical and Computer Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ave. del Charro 450 Norte. Col. Partido Romero, 32310 Ciudad Juárez, CHIH, MexicoDepartment of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ave. del Charro 450 Norte. Col. Partido Romero, 32310 Ciudad Juárez, CHIH, MexicoDepartment of Electrical and Computer Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ave. del Charro 450 Norte. Col. Partido Romero, 32310 Ciudad Juárez, CHIH, MexicoDepartment of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ave. del Charro 450 Norte. Col. Partido Romero, 32310 Ciudad Juárez, CHIH, MexicoDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of La Rioja, Luis de Ulloa 20, Logroño, 26004 La Rioja, SpainDepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of La Rioja, Luis de Ulloa 20, Logroño, 26004 La Rioja, SpainMexico has received a lot of foreign investment that has brought in a wide range of novel production philosophies, such as Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED). Despite its popularity and reported effectiveness, Mexican companies often quit SMED implementation as they consider it challenging. This usually happens when organizations are not familiarized enough with each one of the SMED stages or do not know how they are interrelated. In this article the interrelations among the different SMED implementation stages by means of a structural equations model are analyzed. Data for constructing the model were gathered from a survey administered to 250 employees from the Mexican maquiladora industry. The survey assessed the importance of 14 activities belonging to the four SMED stages. The descriptive analyses of these stages were conducted and integrated into a structural equations model as latent variables, to find their level of dependency. The model was constructed using WarpPLS 5 software, and direct, indirect, and total effects among variables are analyzed and validated. Results from the model revealed that Stage 1 of SMED implementation, known as the Identification Stage, has both direct and indirect effects on all the other SMED stages, being the most important stage.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5912940 |
| spellingShingle | José Roberto Díaz-Reza Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz José Roberto Mendoza-Fong Valeria Martínez-Loya Emilio Jiménez Macías Julio Blanco-Fernández Interrelations among SMED Stages: A Causal Model Complexity |
| title | Interrelations among SMED Stages: A Causal Model |
| title_full | Interrelations among SMED Stages: A Causal Model |
| title_fullStr | Interrelations among SMED Stages: A Causal Model |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interrelations among SMED Stages: A Causal Model |
| title_short | Interrelations among SMED Stages: A Causal Model |
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