Interrelations among SMED stages: a causal model
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Interrelations among SMED stages: a causal model
zbMATH Open document ID: 1373.90047
DOI: 10.1155/2017/5912940
author: José Roberto Díaz-Reza
author: Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz
author: José Roberto Mendoza-Fong
author: Valeria Martínez-Loya
author: Emilio Jiménez Macías
author: Julio Blanco-Fernández
published in: Complexity
publication date: 2017-10-26T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: 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 \textit{Identification Stage}, has both direct and indirect effects on all the other SMED stages, being the most important stage.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B30
zbMATH DE Number: 6798519
zbMATH Keywords: foreign investment
zbMATH Keywords: production philosophies
zbMATH Keywords: Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)
describes a project that uses: WarpPLS
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/5912940
OpenAlex ID: W2744639980
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6798519