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Kaizen is a Japanese word meaning ____

continuous improvement

Kaizen is made up of two characters

Kai meaning change


Zen meaning good

The application that Toyota used was called

Toyota Production System

All line personnel are expected to discontinue their moving production line in the case of any irregularity

Toyota Production System

Kaizen is used for placing the terms

productivity


Total Quality Control


Zero Defects


Just In Time

Two types of Kaizen

Gemba Kaizen (actual workplace)


Teian Kaizen (plan)

action-oriented approach and refers to improvement activities that are carried out in the actual workplace

Gemba Kaizen

represents a theory-based approach and refers to strategic improvements that are prejudice by top management

Teian Kaizen

Kaizen Concept

Kaizen and management


Process Vs Results


PDCA/SCDA cycle


Putting Quality First


Speak with Data


The next Process is Customer

Two Major components of Management

Maintenance function


Improvement function


involves a drastic improvement in the existing process and requires big investment

Innovation

mostly centers on how processes are carried out through the assessment of performance indicated

Process-oriented thinking

basically disregard how processes flow and work

Result-Oriented thinking

vital phase of total quality management


Problems and queries

Planning phase

employees develop a solution for the problems

Doing phase

stage where people actually do a comparison analysis of befor e data to confirm effectiveness of the process

checking phase

phase where employees document their result and prepare themselves to address other problems

acting phase

generally looked at coming from the manufacturers viewpoint as the overall cost of making and selling a product

Cost

quantity in the right place at the right time

delivery

Problem-solving process

Kaizen

Lifeblood of kaizen

Data

last concept of kaizen

Next process is the Customer

Kaizen System

widely use in manufacturing, education, government and service industry

TQC and TQM

management tool for improving total performance

TQC

system of maintaining and improving the integrity of production

TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE

concept wherin operators produce goods using machines

preventive maintenance

one of the features of TPM.


routine maintenance of equipment

autonomous maintenance

Its intention was to get the most out of plant and equipment effectiveness to attain optimum life cycle cost of production equipment

productive maintenance

regarded as individual-oriented kaizen

Suggestion Systems

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

always a strong source of inspiration for other employees

Manager

created with the employees (Data users are involved)

Standards

modify the standard based upon the results from cheking the standard

Action

compare standard with the current situation to verify intended use

check

carrying out the standard (training, practice, experience)

Do

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

ensures that the improvement that have been done using Kaizen works as well and improvements do not slide back

SDCA

a philosophy that calls for people and their organization to experience ongoing improvement at every level

Kaizen

revolutionary way to trim down cost while at the same time using the customers delivery needs

Just In Time Production System

Term which is attributed to Nippondenso, a company that created parts of Toyota

Total Productive Maintenance

Father of TPM

Seiichi Nakajima

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

management stress employee education so that employees can provide better suggestions

education

after the workers are both interested and educated, should management be concerned with economic impact of the suggestion

Efficiency

Carry out specific tasks in a workshop environment

Small group activities

focused or continuous improvement in English

SGA

heart of Kaizen

Humans

business strategy involves everyone in an organization working together to make improvement without large capital investment

the Kaizen business strategy

Maintain current technological, managerial, and operating standards

Maintenance function

Aimed at improving current standard

improvement function

it is also essential that management is trained and be behind the effort

Kaizen and Management

Kaizen also talks about improving performance in terms of three dimensions

QCD


quality


cost


delivery

customer defined and referred to as the perceived characteristics in features of a product

Quality

requires that quality is a primary goal

Kaizen

focuses on maintaining all equipment in top working condition to avoid breakdowns and delays in manufacturing processes

Total Productive Maintenance

running at reduce speed and minor tops

performance

breakdowns and products changeover

availability

start up rejects and running reject

quality

wait until equipment fails and repair it

breakdown maintenance

daily maintenance (cleaning, inspection, oiling, and re-tightening)

preventive maintenance

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

this is a method in which the service life of important part is predicted based on inspection diagnosis

predictive maintenance

it improved equipment and it's components so that preventive maintenance can be carried out reliably

Corrective maintenance

it indicates the design of new equipment

maintenance prevention

respond within the day to team members ideas whenever possible

Delays in approving idea

the approval process should undergo observation, discussion and approval by the team leader or supervisor

complex approval process

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

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

once again, clear guidelines for what is a good kaizen idea

inappropriate Kaizen suggestion

this defeat the the purpose of kaizen as a people development tool since the idea generator cannot be coached

Allowing anonymous suggestions

every idea should receive a small reward

unfair rewards

since human are the heart of kaizen and humans need both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation

motivating by cash only

endorse kaizen in all its forms in a variety of ways

lack of promotion and support of the kaizen suggestion program

companies can do these entire well and still not get ideas put in place quickly enough if resources

lack of timely implementation

invoked when a failure occcurs

SCDA