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Group 5- Linda, Elijah, Jelah, Nancy, & La’Gerald
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Kai = Change Zen = Good Kaizen means “good change”
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Kaizen is making small incremental changes to improve productivity and reduce wastes The goal is to eliminate the Non-Value Added Activities (i.e. walking, transporting parts, generating useless reports)
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Identify obstacles and threats at an early stage and are solved then. Small issues that are overlooked can snowball into bigger problems. Reduce waste through effective management. There are always more effective ways to do things Encourage employees to bring in ideas and suggestions Must be done in a way where no one is blamed and that the best process is put in place.
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Toyota came up with the “Toyota Production System” which strived for continuous improvement In 1986, Masaaki Imai, the developer of Kaizen, wrote a book called “Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success” Westerns read the book and “discovered” Kazien
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Reduces waste Improve space utilization and product quality Higher employee moral and job satisfaction Teaches to solve everyday problem
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Sorting Keeping only essential tools and items Simplifying Eliminate extra motion Sweeping Cleaning work area Standardizing Standardized work practices Sustaining Maintaining standards
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Resistance to change Lack of proper procedures to implement new process Too many suggestions can be confusing and a waste of time Difficult to implement in large scale process, because it requires a lot of analyzing
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Imai, Masaaki (1986). Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success Imai, Masaaki Liker, Jeffrey; Meier, David (2006). The Toyota Way Fieldbook. New York: McGraw-Hill. Laraia, Anthony C.; Patricia E. Moody; Robert W. Hall (1999). The Kaizen Blitz: accelerating breakthroughs in productivity and performance. John Wiley and Sons. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-471- 24648-0. Retrieved 6 February 2010.The Kaizen Blitz: accelerating breakthroughs in productivity and performanceISBN978-0-471- 24648-0
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