Control Measures for Kaizen Costing - Formulation and Practical Use of the Half-Life Model
Kaizen costing focuses on continuous reductions of costs, which should be realized for existing products in a company. For planning and control purposes, comprehensive and efficient tools for measuring performance are required. For this purpose we suggest the so-called half-life model. This paper gives the mathematical formulation for this model and illustrates its practical use with different examples.