This book provides a conceptual description of the PDCA cycle and the tools that support it. A brief literature review is given for each tool, indicating the timeline according to Scopus, the main areas in which they are applied, the main authors and the journals that most publish on these topics. It reports three industrial applications, one focusing on cost reduction, the second on optimizing a manufacturing company's raw material receiving process, and the third one on eliminating waste and increasing performance.

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Arturo Realyvásquez Vargas is a full-time professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tecnológico Nacional de Mexico/Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana in Mexico. He received a master's degree in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico and a Ph.D. in Innovation in Product Engineering and Industrial Process at the University of La Rioja (Spain). His main research areas are industrial processes optimization, lean manufacturing, and ergonomics.

Jorge Luis García Alcaraz is a full-time researcher in the Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Department at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. He received an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Colima Technological Institute (Mexico), a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering Sciences from Ciudad Juárez Technological Institute (Mexico), a Ph.D. in Innovation in Product Engineering and Industrial Process from the University of La Rioja (Spain), a Ph.D. in Sciences and Industrial Technologies from the Public University of Navarre (Spain), a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zaragoza (Spain), and a Postdoc in Manufacturing Process from University of La Rioja (Spain). His main research areas are related to the multicriteria decision-making process and techniques applied to lean manufacturing, production process, and supply chain modeling.

Suchismita Satapathy is an associate professor at the School of Mechanical Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. Her areas of interest include production operation management, operation research, acoustics, sustainability, and supply chain management.

Diaz-Reza José Roberto has a degree in Industrial Engineering, a master's degree in Industrial Engineering with a specialty in Quality, a Ph.D. in innovation in product engineering and industrial processes from the University of La RIoja (Spain), and a Ph.D. in advanced engineering sciences from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (Mexico).