Interrelations among SMED Stages: A Causal Model

  1. Díaz-Reza, J.R. 1
  2. García-Alcaraz, J.L. 1
  3. Mendoza-Fong, J.R. 1
  4. Martínez-Loya, V. 1
  5. Macías, E.J. 2
  6. Blanco-Fernández, J. 2
  1. 1 Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
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    Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

    Ciudad Juárez, México

    ROR https://ror.org/05fj8cf83

  2. 2 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Zeitschrift:
Complexity

ISSN: 1076-2787

Datum der Publikation: 2017

Ausgabe: 2017

Art: Artikel

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DOI: 10.1155/2017/5912940 SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-85042186228 WoS: WOS:000406881900001 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen Access editor

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Zusammenfassung

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. © 2017 José Roberto Díaz-Reza et al.