Machinery Lean Manufacturing Tools for Improved Sustainability: The Mexican Maquiladora Industry Experience

Jorge Luis García Alcaraz, Adrián Salvador Morales García, José Roberto Díaz Reza, Julio Blanco Fernández, Emilio Jiménez Macías and Rita Puig i Vidal
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Jorge Luis García Alcaraz: Department of Industrial Engineering, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez 32310, Mexico
Adrián Salvador Morales García: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez 32310, Mexico
José Roberto Díaz Reza: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez 32310, Mexico
Julio Blanco Fernández: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of La Rioja, 26004 Logroño, Spain
Emilio Jiménez Macías: Department of Electric Engineering, University of La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain
Rita Puig i Vidal: Department of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering, University of Lleida, 08700 Igualada, Spain

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: This paper reports a structural equation model (SEM) to quantify the relationship between Lean Manufacturing (LM) tools associated with machinery and sustainability. The LM tools are independent variables and include Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Jidoka, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), whereas dependent sustainability variables comprise environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The SEM proposes ten hypotheses, tested statistically using information from 239 responses to a questionnaire applied to the Mexican maquiladora industry and the Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique for quantifying relationships among variables. Additionally, we discuss conditional probabilities to explain how low and high levels of TPM, Jidoka, and OEE impact sustainability. Findings reveal that TPM, Jidoka, and OEE directly impact social, environmental, and economic sustainability, thus indicating that safe workplaces improve employee commitment, safety, delivery time, and morale.

Keywords: Lean Manufacturing; sustainability; Jidoka; TPM; OEE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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