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Kaizen is a Japanese word meaning ____ |
continuous improvement |
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Kaizen is made up of two characters |
Kai meaning change Zen meaning good |
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The application that Toyota used was called |
Toyota Production System |
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All line personnel are expected to discontinue their moving production line in the case of any irregularity |
Toyota Production System |
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Kaizen is used for placing the terms |
productivity Total Quality Control Zero Defects Just In Time |
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Two types of Kaizen |
Gemba Kaizen (actual workplace) Teian Kaizen (plan) |
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action-oriented approach and refers to improvement activities that are carried out in the actual workplace |
Gemba Kaizen |
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represents a theory-based approach and refers to strategic improvements that are prejudice by top management |
Teian Kaizen |
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Kaizen Concept |
Kaizen and management Process Vs Results PDCA/SCDA cycle Putting Quality First Speak with Data The next Process is Customer |
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Two Major components of Management |
Maintenance function Improvement function |
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involves a drastic improvement in the existing process and requires big investment |
Innovation |
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mostly centers on how processes are carried out through the assessment of performance indicated |
Process-oriented thinking |
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basically disregard how processes flow and work |
Result-Oriented thinking |
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vital phase of total quality management Problems and queries |
Planning phase |
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employees develop a solution for the problems |
Doing phase |
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stage where people actually do a comparison analysis of befor e data to confirm effectiveness of the process |
checking phase |
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phase where employees document their result and prepare themselves to address other problems |
acting phase |
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generally looked at coming from the manufacturers viewpoint as the overall cost of making and selling a product |
Cost |
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quantity in the right place at the right time |
delivery |
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Problem-solving process |
Kaizen |
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Lifeblood of kaizen |
Data |
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last concept of kaizen |
Next process is the Customer |
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Kaizen System |
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widely use in manufacturing, education, government and service industry |
TQC and TQM |
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management tool for improving total performance |
TQC |
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system of maintaining and improving the integrity of production |
TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE |
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concept wherin operators produce goods using machines |
preventive maintenance |
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one of the features of TPM. routine maintenance of equipment |
autonomous maintenance |
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Its intention was to get the most out of plant and equipment effectiveness to attain optimum life cycle cost of production equipment |
productive maintenance |
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regarded as individual-oriented kaizen |
Suggestion Systems |
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Bridge between the senior management |
1. The role of a manager is to act as a facilitator at the workplace 2. A manager must communicate the benefits of total quality management to all other members of the organization |
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always a strong source of inspiration for other employees |
Manager |
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created with the employees (Data users are involved) |
Standards |
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modify the standard based upon the results from cheking the standard |
Action |
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compare standard with the current situation to verify intended use |
check |
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carrying out the standard (training, practice, experience) |
Do |
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Central to the philosophy of Kaizen are two cycles that involve processes of improvement and for maintenance |
PLAN-DO-CHECK-ACT STANDARDIZED-DO-CHECK-ACT |
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ensures that the improvement that have been done using Kaizen works as well and improvements do not slide back |
SDCA |
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a philosophy that calls for people and their organization to experience ongoing improvement at every level |
Kaizen |
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revolutionary way to trim down cost while at the same time using the customers delivery needs |
Just In Time Production System |
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Term which is attributed to Nippondenso, a company that created parts of Toyota |
Total Productive Maintenance |
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Father of TPM |
Seiichi Nakajima |
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management should make every effort to help the workers provide suggestions, no matter how primitive, for the betterment of the worker's job and the workshop. |
encouragement |
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management stress employee education so that employees can provide better suggestions |
education |
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after the workers are both interested and educated, should management be concerned with economic impact of the suggestion |
Efficiency |
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Carry out specific tasks in a workshop environment |
Small group activities |
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focused or continuous improvement in English |
SGA |
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heart of Kaizen |
Humans |
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business strategy involves everyone in an organization working together to make improvement without large capital investment |
the Kaizen business strategy |
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Maintain current technological, managerial, and operating standards |
Maintenance function |
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Aimed at improving current standard |
improvement function |
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it is also essential that management is trained and be behind the effort |
Kaizen and Management |
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Kaizen also talks about improving performance in terms of three dimensions |
QCD quality cost delivery |
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customer defined and referred to as the perceived characteristics in features of a product |
Quality |
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requires that quality is a primary goal |
Kaizen |
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focuses on maintaining all equipment in top working condition to avoid breakdowns and delays in manufacturing processes |
Total Productive Maintenance |
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running at reduce speed and minor tops |
performance |
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breakdowns and products changeover |
availability |
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start up rejects and running reject |
quality |
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wait until equipment fails and repair it |
breakdown maintenance |
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daily maintenance (cleaning, inspection, oiling, and re-tightening) |
preventive maintenance |
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time based maintenance consist of periodically inspecting, servicing and cleaning equipment and replacing first prevent sudden failures and process problems |
periodic maintenance or time based maintenance |
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this is a method in which the service life of important part is predicted based on inspection diagnosis |
predictive maintenance |
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it improved equipment and it's components so that preventive maintenance can be carried out reliably |
Corrective maintenance |
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it indicates the design of new equipment |
maintenance prevention |
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respond within the day to team members ideas whenever possible |
Delays in approving idea |
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the approval process should undergo observation, discussion and approval by the team leader or supervisor |
complex approval process |
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ironically, asking for quantity over quality will Force the identification of smaller problem that are easier to solve |
backlog of suggestions needing approval on implementation |
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an idea should be nurtured and the idea generator should be coach so that basically every idea is approved |
less than 99% of ideas implemented |
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once again, clear guidelines for what is a good kaizen idea |
inappropriate Kaizen suggestion |
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this defeat the the purpose of kaizen as a people development tool since the idea generator cannot be coached |
Allowing anonymous suggestions |
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every idea should receive a small reward |
unfair rewards |
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since human are the heart of kaizen and humans need both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation |
motivating by cash only |
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endorse kaizen in all its forms in a variety of ways |
lack of promotion and support of the kaizen suggestion program |
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companies can do these entire well and still not get ideas put in place quickly enough if resources |
lack of timely implementation |
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invoked when a failure occcurs |
SCDA |