Kaizen is a philosophy of continuous improvement pioneered by Masaaki Imai that involves implementing small improvements through everyone's participation. It aims to improve workplace effectiveness through eliminating waste, strain, and discrepancy. The three basic principles of Kaizen are work place effectiveness using 5S tools, elimination of the seven deadly wastes like overproduction and waiting time, and standardization to represent best practices and allow for continuous improvements.

1. KAIZEN

2. KAIZEN
-Pioneered and brought into US by Masaaki Imai
-It is a philosophy that defines the management role in
continuously encouraging and implementing small
improvements involving everyone.
-It also means “continuous improvement”

4. Take small steps

5. Three Basic Principles of Kaizen
 Work Place Effectiveness
 Elimination of waste, strain and discrepancy
 Standardization

6. Work Place Effectiveness
1. Seiri (Sort)
2. Seiton (Straighten)
3. Seiso (Scrub)
4. Seikutsu (Systematize)
5. Shitsuke (Standardize)
5S Tools

7. Elimination of
waste,
strain and
discrepancy

8. MUs
MUda means Waste
MUri means Strain
MUra means Discrepancy

9. 7 Deadly Waste
 1. Waste from overproduction – occurs due to production
planning when money is blocked in the unsold products.
 2. Waste of waiting time – Work- In- Progress is an
example of waste of waiting time.
 3. Transportation waste – Unnecessary waste.
 4. Processing waste – If a process is held up due to
breakdown of the machinery, money is loss.
 5. Inventory waste – every part should be accounted to
avoid inventory waste.
 6. Waste of motion – Searching for things, non availability
of the correct tools, not monitoring the running
machine etc. can cause wastage
of lot of time.
 7. Production defects- the defective parts or supplies
cause loss of money.

10. Standardization
 * Represent the best, easiest and safest way to do a
job.
* Offer the best way to preserve know-how and
expertise
* Provide a way to measure performance
* Show the relationship between cause and effect
* Provide a basis for both maintenance and
improvements
* Provide objectives and indicate training goals
* Create a basis for audit or diagnosis
* Provide a means for preventing recurrence of
errors and minimizing variability