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Continuous improvement of an entire value stream or an individual process in order to create more value with less waste. There are two levels of kaizen (Rother and Shook 1999): System or flow kaizen, which focuses on the…
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A group kaizen activity, commonly lasting five days, in which a team identifies and implements significant improvements in a process. See: Gemba, Jishuken, Kaizen, PDCA.
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Some confuse the term kaizen with specific ways of making improvements when, in fact, it should be understood as a philosophy that changes everyone's mindset in the company
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How Laerdal Medical managed to enthusiastically restart its lean journey with the help of a good old kaizen week.
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Tilibra achieves significant improvements in its processes in just one week using kaizen, a lean practice.
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The practice of asking "why?" repeatedly whenever a problem is encountered, in order to go beyond the obvious symptoms and thereby discover the root cause. See: Kaizen, PDCA.
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A particular type of hands-on workshop in which people "learn by doing." The term literally means "self-study" in Japanese. See : Kaizen Workshop, Toyota Production System.
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Radical, revolutionary improvement of a value stream in order to quickly create more value with less waste. See : Kaizen, PDCA.
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Any activity that consumes resources without creating value for the customer. Within this general category, it is useful to distinguish between type one muda, consisting of activities that cannot be eliminated…
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A disciplined method for designing a lean production process for a new product, or for fundamentally redesigning the production process for an existing product when the product or demand changes substantially. It may…
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Establishing precise procedures for the work of each operator in a production process, based on the following three elements: Takt time, which is the rate at which products must be produced to meet customer demand. The…
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