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    Kaizen originated after World War II when Toyota first implemented quality circles in its production process. It involves making small, incremental changes to improve productivity and minimize waste. Masaaki Imai introduced the concept of Kaizen to Western audiences in 1986 through his book. The key aspects of Kaizen are making continuous improvements through group activities, eliminating waste, and empowering employees. It aims to constantly improve processes through philosophies like reducing muri (unnecessary effort) and establishing standard work procedures.

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    Kaizen originated after World War II when Toyota first implemented quality circles in its production process. It involves making small, incremental changes to improve productivity and minimize waste. Masaaki Imai introduced the concept of Kaizen to Western audiences in 1986 through his book. The key aspects of Kaizen are making continuous improvements through group activities, eliminating waste, and empowering employees. It aims to constantly improve processes through philosophies like reducing muri (unnecessary effort) and establishing standard work procedures.

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    Kaizen originated after World War II when Toyota first implemented quality circles in its production process. It involves making small, incremental changes to improve productivity and minimize waste. Masaaki Imai introduced the concept of Kaizen to Western audiences in 1986 through his book. The key aspects of Kaizen are making continuous improvements through group activities, eliminating waste, and empowering employees. It aims to constantly improve processes through philosophies like reducing muri (unnecessary effort) and establishing standard work procedures.

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    KAIZEN

    History
    Kaizen came into existence after World War II when Toyota first
    implemented quality circles in its production process.
    Kaizen was first implemented in several Japanese businesses after
    World War II, influenced in part by American business and quality
    management teachers who visited the country.
    It has since spread throughout the world and is now being
    implemented in many other venues besides just business and
    productivity.

    Masaaki Imai is known as the developer of


    Kaizen.
    In 1986 Masaaki Imai introduced to the Western world the Japanese
    term Kaizen and made it famous through his book, Kaizen:
    The Key to Japan's Competitive Success.
    ('kai') KAI means 'change' or 'the action to correct'.
    ('zen') ZEN means 'good'

    Kaizen: Change for Good

    Kaizen is small incremental changes made for improving


    productivity and minimizing waste.

    Kaizen Focus
    Make it better!
    Make it faster!
    Make it cheaper!
    OBJECTIVE:
    TO MAXIMISE OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PLANT
    AND PROCESS BY ELIMINATION OF ALL LOSSES AND TO
    REDUCE COST OF PRODUCTION THROUGH SMALL GROUP
    ACTIVITIES
    Its all about making things: better, faster and/or cheaper.
    Kaizen Thinking.
    Leaders are most important for bringing change in an organization.
    Environment makes people!
    If environment changes, people change.
    What is the Expected Change?

    Change FROM TO
    Customer orientation Company Driven Customer Driven
    Operational Output Inspection Input Setting
    Processes
    People processes Individual Effort Team Effort
    People skills By pass problem FindingSolution
    Decisions Unilateral Consultative
    /Empowered
    Leadership Managing Leading
    Management Style Delegation Empowerment
    Management a different approach
    Management has two major components:
    1. Maintenance
    2. Improvement
    Under the maintenance function, the management must first
    establish policies, rules, directives and standard operating
    procedures (SOPs) and then work towards ensuring that everybody
    follows SOP.
    Under the improvement function, management works continuously
    towards revising the current standards, once they have been
    mastered, and establishing higher ones.
    Improvement can be broken down between innovation and Kaizen.
    Innovation involves a drastic improvement in the existing process
    and requires large investments. Kaizen signifies small
    improvements as a result of coordinated continuous efforts by all
    employees.
    Kaizen (the translation of kai (change) zen (good) is
    improvement). This method became famous by the book of
    Masaaki Imai Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success.

    So what is Kaizen ?
    Kaizen refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous
    improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering,
    supporting business processes, and management.
    By improving standardized activities and processes, kaizen aims to
    eliminate waste as in lean manufacturing ( Toyota Production
    System ).

    Key Features of Kaizen


    1.Improvements are based on many, small changes rather than the
    radical changes that might arise from R & D .
    2.As the ideas come from the workers themselves, they are less
    likely to be radically different, and therefore easier to implement
    3.Small improvements are less likely to require major capital
    investment than major process changes
    4.The ideas come from the talents of the existing workforce, as
    opposed to using R&D, consultants or equipment any of which
    could be very expensive
    5.All employees should continually be seeking ways to improve their
    own performance
    6.It helps encourage workers to take ownership for their work, and
    can help reinforce team working, thereby improving worker
    motivation

    Kaizen is a daily process, the purpose of which goes beyond


    simple productivity improvement.
    It is also a process that, when done correctly, humanizes the
    workplace, eliminates overly hard work ("muri"), and teaches
    people how to perform experiments on their work using the
    scientific method and how to learn to spot and eliminate waste in
    business processes.

    Kaizen at Toyota
    Team
    A team is a collection of people related to one another who share a
    common objective and work in a collaboration with one another to
    achieve a common target.

    Team Leader is the Eyes & Ears of Team

    Every team has a leader and members.


    A team leader
    First remove his Hat outside.
    Has need for improvement
    Sets targets for the team
    Good communicator
    Good coordinator
    Works as a member
    Resource person for the members
    Understands teams strengths and weaknesses
    Has counseling skills
    How Small Group Activities will be success.
    Standardize the work
    Use modern tools and techniques.

    Seven Steps of Kaizen

    Step-0Select improvement topic


    Step-1Understand the situation
    Step-2Expose and eliminate abnormalities
    Step-3Analyze causes
    Step-4Plan Improvements
    Step-5Implement Improvement
    Step-6Check results
    Step-7Consolidate gains

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