Abstract : This paper presents a process model describing how a Kaizen team collectively creates innovation and improvement ideas for a production system and a protocol analysis approach based on the model. The process model captures the team-based creative problem solving practice as a process of updating a shared mental space comprising production system mental models (PSMMs) through exchanging utterances among the team members, where each utterance element characterizes an existing PSMM and/or creates a new PSMM. The paper also applies the proposed protocol analysis approach to an actual case, confirms its applicability and draws some insights into the process.
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Hajime Mizuyama. How Innovation and Improvement Ideas Are Created for a Production System by a Kaizen Team: A Protocol Analysis. International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS), Sep 2011, Stavanger, Norway. pp.586-597, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-33980-6_63⟩. ⟨hal-01524227⟩