2. Introduction
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Masaaki Imai is known as the developer of
KAIZEN.
‘KAI’ means ‘Change or the action to correct’.
‘ZEN’ means ‘Good’.
Kaizen is small incremental changes made for
improving productivity and minimizing wastes.
3. 3 Main Principles of KAIZEN
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1. Consider the process and the results.
2. The need to look at the entire process of the
job at hand and to evaluate the job as to the
best way to get the job done.
3. Kaizen must be approached in such a way that
no one is blamed and that best process is put
into place.
4. Features Of Kaizen
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Widely applicable.
Highly effective and result oriented.
A learning experience.
Team based and cross-functional.
5. Phases in Kaizen
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A. Select an event.
B. Plan an event.
C. Implement an event.
D. Follow-up an event.
8. Benefits Of 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.
9. Implementation
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The Toyota Production System is known for
kaizen, where all line personnel are expected to
stop their moving production line in case of any
abnormality and, along with their supervisor,
suggest an improvement to resolve the
abnormality which may initiate a kaizen.
10. The cycle of kaizen activity can be defined
as:
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Standardize an operation and activities,
Measure the operation (find cycle time and
amount of in-process inventory).
Gauge measurements against requirements.
Innovate to meet requirements and increase
productivity.
Standardize the new, improved operations.
Continue cycle ad infinitum.
11. This is also known as the Shewhart cycle,
Deming cycle, or PDCA.
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Another technique used in conjunction with
PDCA is the 5 Whys, which is a form of root
cause analysis in which the user asks a series of
5 "why" questions about a failure that has
occurred, basing each subsequent question on
the answer to the previous. There are normally a
series of causes stemming from one root
cause,and they can be visualized using fishbone
diagrams or tables.
14. Pit Falls in Kaizen
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Resistance to change.
Lack of proper procedure to implement.
Too much suggestion may lead to confusion and
time wastage.
Difficult to implement in large scale process,
where analyzing requires a lot of time.
15. KAIZEN HELPS YOU TO ….
SEE THE WASTE.
TURN PROBLEMS INTO PROFIT.
CONSTANTLY CHANGE FOR THE BETTER..
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