The role of green Kaizen technology in reducing failure costs and improving product quality

Abstract

 The research aims to use the Green Kaizen technique to reduce the costs of internal failure during the production stages, reduce their costs, increase workers' efforts and develop their performance with the aim of achieving production efficiency, enhancing activities that add value and reaching the highest level of quality in order to produce high-quality products that meet the desires and needs of customers, thus increasing profits and market share of the economic unit. Green Kaizen technology aims to produce high-quality products that meet environmental requirements and achieve environmental sustainability through green process management, improving product quality, and making continuous improvements throughout all stages of the product lifecycle. These improvements include reducing waste and loss, treating damaged units, and limiting environmental pollution and its associated effects that pose a risk to the environment and society, which occur through production processes. Therefore, this technology uses preventive activities to address the risks of production processes and reduce their impact. In order to achieve this goal, the researchers relied on the descriptive approach in writing the theoretical aspect of the research by relying on foreign books and articles, research, letters and Arabic theses related to the research topic. As for the practical aspect, the researchers relied on financial data and personal interviews with specialists in Diyala General Company. The researchers concluded that the Green Kaizen technique plays a major role in reducing failed units by eliminating waste and loss of resources. This helps the economic unit to reduce the costs of failure and improve the quality of products. A set of necessary recommendations was presented that can help economic units reduce the costs of failure and improve the quality of products by using modern means and technology in industrial processes with the aim of reducing machine downtime and thus reducing waste and loss of resources.