Driving Manufacturing Excellence: The Role of Lean Strategies and Mediating Factors in Performance Improvement
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24425/mper.2025.156139Abstract
Lean manufacturing (LM) aims to improve production efficiency by systematically reducing waste and fostering continuous improvement. This research analyzes how LM strategies are carried out, what is important for them to succeed and the benefits they bring to the manufacturing industry in Morocco’s north. Using a comprehensive questionnaire survey, the author shows that Kaizen and similar incremental improvement techniques matter and detailed their effect on top performance metrics, like how much a company produces and its cost efficiency. Using advanced statistical methods, the study investigated whether employee engagement, managerial support, and process adaptability act as mediators between lean practices and performance outcomes. The results confirm that adopting LM significantly enhances operational performance, emphasizing its central role in achieving manufacturing excellence. This paper illustrates the importance of LM as well as the practical advice to industries that wish to pursue sustainable competitive advantage by adopting lean transformation.References
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