KAIZEN CYCLE FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

KAIZEN CYCLE FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT.

WHAT IS KAIZEN?. Kaizen is a strategy where employees at all levels of a company work together proactively to achieve regular, incremental improvements to the manufacturing process..

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1.Involving-Get employees involved. Head with Gears.

2.Listing-Gather a list of problems. Onboarding. Collect feedback from employees to identify problems and possible solutions Using feedback from all employees, gather a list of problems and potential opportunities..

3.Selecting-Encourage solution, then choose an idea.

4.Testing-Test the solution. Implement the Best solution chosen above, create experimental trial or take other small steps to test out the solution..

5.Measuring-Regulatory measure and Analyze the result.

6.Adopting-If it successful adopt the solution. If results are positive, adopt the solution throughout the organization.

7.Repeating-Repeat on an ongoing basis. These seven steps should be repeated on an ongoing basis, with new solutions tested where appropriate or new lists of problems tackled..

Advantage. Improve teamwork. Kaizen builds leadership skills. Improve efficiency. Improve employee satisfaction. Better safety. Waste reduction..

Disadvantages. Difficult to implement in existing systems. Change is difficult. Training requirement..