INTRODUCTION FOR KAIZEN CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT FOR EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE
The word of “Kaizen” derived from Japanese dictionary, which means continuous improvement. In Japan continuous improvement techniques applied in Toyota and Canon companies to measures for implementing continuous improvement. Kaizen has been applied in various sectors such as healthcare, government, manufacturing and etc. The objective of implementing is reducing waste, improving productivity and safety of the company. All employees in organisation from upper management to lower level to work as a team and everyone involved with making improvement.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Understand the Philosophy of Kaizen
- Define the 7 Types of Waste.
- Principal in Identifying and Eliminating Waste.
- The Usage of Waste Observation Tools in Kaizen
- The Usage of “Ideas Generating” Tools in Kaizen
- The usage of “Kaizen Form”
- How to conduct Kaizen activity
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Managers
- Executives
- Engineers
- Supervisors
- Line Leaders
METHODOLOGY
A variety of presentation methods will be used including short lecture-style, group discussions, role- play, interactive learning, games and exercises.
COURSE CONTENT
- Understand the Philosophy of Kaizen
- Introduction to Kaizen
- Kaizen In TPS system
- What is Kaizen
- Innovation vs Kaizen
- CI and Standardization
- Implementing Kaizen
- Kaizen as an Improvement Methodology
- Benefits of Kaizen
- Why Kaizen?
- 12 Kaizen Paradigms to follow
- Kaizen format with actions and solutions
- Stages of Kaizen
- Planning and Preparation
- Event
- Report out
- Follow-up
- Kaizen Quality Improvement Tools
- 7QC Tools and Their Application
- Check Sheet
- Pareto Chart
- Histogram
- Scatter Diagram
- Cause and Effect Diagram
- Control Chart
- Define the 7 Types of Waste
- Overproduction
- Overprocessing
- Waiting
- Motion
- Transportation
- Inventory
- Principal in Identifying and Eliminating Waste.
- What is waste
- Waste walk Observation and Kaizen at your workplace
- Kaizen Examples
- Poke Yoke
- Visual Management
- Understanding the Process of Waste
