Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement involving employees at all levels. The document discusses Kaizen and its implementation through a step-by-step process. Kaizen was introduced in Japan after WWII to help rebuild the country and improve management skills. It involves standardizing operations, measuring performance, innovating to meet requirements, and continually repeating the cycle. Kaizen is used extensively in product development to design efficient manufacturing processes. It employs lean thinking and has been shown to reduce costs, space needs, and improve worker satisfaction through its success in pull cellular manufacturing systems.

1. Kaizen-5s
By,
Sarvan K(201313006),
Kajal,

2. Contents:
Definition
Introduction
Implementation
Step by Step process
Case study

3. KAIZEN
Kaizen (改善), Japanese for "good change". It has been applied in healthcare, psychotherapy, life-
coaching, government, banking, and other industries.

4. Introduction
• To build japan after World war two, American experts helped and developed a
management training program that taught statistical control over material.
• Sarasohn recommended W. Edwards Deming for further training in Statistical
Methods. The Economic and Scientific Section (ESS) group was also tasked with
improving Japanese management skills. Thus Kaizen introduced by titled in three J’s
program.
•Emperor of Japan awarded the 2nd Order Medal of the Sacred Treasure to Dr. Deming
in 1960. Consequently, the Union of Japanese Science and Engineering (JUSE)
instituted the annual Deming Prizes for achievement in quality and dependability of
products.

5. Implementation

6. Kaizen is used extensively in Product, Process, and Production (PPP) development.
The major strategy of this development is to design a new product while considering
the functions of products, the production processes used, and efficient production
practices on the shop floor.
KAIZEN Method implementation in work place

7. The cycle of kaizen activity can be defined as:
•Standardize an operation and activities.
•Measure the operation.
•Gauge measurements against requirements.
•Innovate to meet requirements and increase productivity.
•Standardize the new, improved operations.
•Continue cycle ad infinitum.
This is also known as the Shewhart cycle , Deming cycle, or PDCA.

8. The Kaizen process is successful because it employs the lean thinking approach of designing a flexible,
controllable, efficient, and unique manufacturing process (Womack & Jones, 1996).
Example of Kaizen's success in a pull cellular manufacturing system and addresses this success in terms
of cost, space, and improved worker satisfaction.

9. Quality + Check + Sustain = Success

10. Step by Step Process

11. Kaizen Process

12. Track Record

13. Adds Value
Kaizen Deals with a value
• Finance management - operation managing
•Management development – People Process
•Bussiness development – Strategy process

14. References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA
http://www.slideshare.net/iaemedu/kaizen-in-the-indian-context-a-case-study
http://www.graphicproducts.com/tutorials/kaizen/
http://enfocussolutions.com/5s-and-kaizen-for-process-improvement
http://eprints2.utem.edu.my/6888/1/38_NCMER2_023.pdf

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