Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement involving everyone. It aims to make small, gradual improvements over time with minimal costs. Some key aspects of Kaizen include identifying waste (muda), overburden (muri), and unevenness (mura) and using tools like 5S, PDCA cycles, quality circles, and kanban. Toyota successfully implemented Kaizen to improve efficiency and working conditions. Applying Kaizen principles can lead to benefits like reduced waste, improved quality and productivity, and increased employee satisfaction.

1. SUBMITTED TO:
Karan deep Kaur
SUBMITTED by:
NAME: ROLL NO:
AHMAD KHALID IBRAHIM KHIL 19421210
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
P U N J A B I U N I V E R S I T Y PAT I A L A
(SESSION 2019-2021)
KAIZEN
“Continues Improvement”

2. Introduction
• Efficient work and quality require clean environment, safety and discipline. So,
the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen is simple and effective for tidiness.
• The Kaizen is prerequisites for any improvement program.
• Kaizen focuses on small, gradual and frequent improvements over the long term
with minimum financial investment and participation by everyone.

3. What is Kaizen?
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⦁ The Japanese word “Kaizen” (改 善 ) means change (KAI) to
become good (ZEN).
Kai Zen
改 善
Change Good
 Kaizen means improvement. Improvements without spending much money,
involving everyone from managers to employees, and using much common
sense.
 The aspect of Kaizen is that it is on-going and never-ending improvement
process.

4. Origin of Kaizen
 Masaaki Imai is known as the developer of Kaizen. He is known as the “Lean Guru” and the
father of Continuous Improvement.
 According to him In simple words Kaizen means improvement. Kaizen strategy calls for
never-ending efforts for improvement involving everyone in the organization – managers and
workers alike.
 Author of books like Kaizen(1986)Key to Japans Competitive success and Gemba
Kaizen(1997).
 The foundation of Kaizen was laid in Japan after the Second World War in 1939,when the
country was attempting to rebuild infrastructure and rethink many systems.

5. Kaizen : Key principles
 Consider process & results
 Need to look entire process & evaluate job as to be best
way
 No one should be blamed & best process is put into place.
Kaizen team Problem solving team
Time 2 TO 10 Hour 3 TO 6 Month
Power Make change Recommend action
Focus Whole Process Single Issue

6. KAIZEN METHODOLOGY
 Finding out the pain area
 Analysis of the pain area
 3Ms Considered with the 4Ms
 3Ms MURA, MURI, MUDA
 Muda ("non-value-adding work" Waste)
 Muri ("overburden" over load )
 Mura ("unevenness" imbalance)
 4Ms MAN, MACHINE, MATERIAL, METHOD

7. Kaizen : Implementation Concepts
 The term KAIZEN is based on some concepts as
stated below:
1. 5S (Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu & Shitsuke)
2. PDCA CYCLE (Plan,Do,Check,Act)
3. QUALITY CIRCLE
4. KANBAN

8. “5 S” in Kaizen
5 S is a method for organizing a workplace
especially a shared workplace
1. “Seiri”(Sort):Keeping only essential items.
2. “Seiton”(Set in order):Eliminate extra motion
3. “Seiso”(Shine):Keep the work place clean
4.“Seiketsu”(Standardize):Standardize work
practices
5. “Shitsuke”(Self discipline):Maintaining discipline

9. • PLAN
Collect the data
• DO
Implementation
• CHECK
Evaluate the result
• ACT
Apply the change
PDCACYCLE

10. QUALITY CIRCLES
• A quality circle is a volunteer group composed
of employees, who are trained to identify,
analyse and solve work-related problems and
present their solutions to management
• This improves the performance of the
organization

11. KANBAN
 Kanban (signboard) is a concept related to lean
and just-in-time (JIT) production.
 It works as a communication system which
immediately provides information about
changed demand through the entire supply chain

12. BenefitsOf Kaizen
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• Kaizen reduces waste - like inventory waste, time
waste and workers motion.
• Kaizen improves space utilization and product
quality.
• Results in higher employee moral and job
satisfaction.
• Teaches workers how to solve everyday
problems.

13. Kaizen inToyota
 In the earlier 1990,Toyota was facing acute labour shortage
 toyota’s initial mangement focus was on increasing production
efficiency through higher production levels with less number of
workers.this resulted in increased stress & worker exodus
 The global upsurge in car demand during 1987-1991 led to drastic
increase in demand for labors
 Toyota realized that it is the time to implement Kaizen for modifying
existing assembly lines to attract workers
 The company decided to change its working conditions to
accommodate workers of more diverse nature
 Toyota is well known one of the leaders in using Kaizen.In 1999 at
one U.S plant 7000 toyota employee submitted over 75000
suggestions of which 99% were implemented

14. EXAMPLE OF KAIZEN

15. KAIZEN IN DAYTO DAY LIFE
Consider the case of a student’s bag. The items can be classified into
1.Notes and assignments
2.Stationary (pens, notepads etc.)
3.Other items like calculators, pen drive etc.
 Regular checking of the stationary items ensures that the note
making is not affected due to lack of stationary.
 Keeping notes and assignments organized enables faster access to
them.
 Overall checking of bag at regular intervals ensures that no
necessary items are missing

16. Conclusion
 The concept is simple but if properly applied can lead to
significant efficiency improvements for organizations.
 “Kaizen” or “continuous improvement” should be a part of
our everyday life.
 Good is never good enough , kaizen is never- ending
journey to excellence.
 It helps to turn problems into profit.

17. KAIZEN HELPS YOU TO ….
SEE THE WASTE.
TURN PROBLEMS INTO PROFIT.
CONSTANTLY CHANGE FOR THE BETTER..