Continuous improvement philosophy for manufacturing productivity: critical review

In the current age of science, Indian industries are facing many challenges especially with the increasing product demand, complexity and competitiveness along with tightened quality, yield and productivity improvement. For the same purpose industries require to identify the potential area for improvement and diagnose the bottleneck. The Continuous Improvement Philosophy (CIP) is a very powerful tool that can be effectively employed to realize fundamental improvements of manufacturing performance in the organization, thereby leading the organizations successfully in the highly competitive environment. Although CIP has been widely accepted but, many critiques and improvement opportunities are possible. This paper explains the review of CIP and critiques which is necessary while implementation of CIP for performance evaluation.