KAIZEN - Adibah Kamal
KAIZEN - Adibah Kamal
Lean
Manufacturing
Prepared by:
Adibah Kamal
HSE
What is Kaizen?
• KAIZEN = Continuous improvement
• Kaizen is a system of continuous improvement in quality, technology,
process, company culture, productivity, safety and leadership.
• Involves setting standards and the continuously improving those standards.
• Improvement WITHOUT SPENDING too much of money BUT INVOLVE
EVERYONE in the organization start from the Top Management, Middle
Management and Lower Management.
• Using simple common sense.
• On-going effort and never ending.
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Did you know?
The philosophy of Kaizen is on the Toyota’s core values. It
means “continual improvement”. No process can ever be
declared perfect but it can always be improved. In practice it
means that everyone in the organisation is continuously looking
for ways to improve operations.
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Teamwork
What is the
Personal discipline
of kaizen
methods? Quality circles
To eliminate
Growth of
any Developing
the
abnormalities self
organization
& stopping of personality
limits
How to Kaizen?
• Identify the customer – requirement from the customer.
• Deming cycle – PDCA
1) Plan – identify what to change and how to do it.
Current state, future state, implementation plan
2) Do – execute the improvement.
3) Check – ensure the improvement works.
4) Act – future and on-going improvements
5) Repeat
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Identify the Customer
• Value added is always determined from
the customer’s perspective.
• Who is the customer?
• Every process should be focused on
adding value to the customer.
• Anything that does not add value is
waste.
• Some non-valued added activity is
necessary waste.
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Identify the Current
State
• Crucial first step in process improvement.
• Deep understanding of the existing processes and
dependencies.
• Identify all the activities currently involved in
developing a new product.
• Observe the process first hand.
• Identify Value Added (VA), Non-Value Added
Required (NVA-R), and Non-Value Added (NVA).
• Generally creates more questions than answers.
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Brainstorm and Analyze
• Kaizen team brainstorming to develop new process.
• Post improvement ideas on map or by category.
• Workflow
• Technology
• People/Organization
• Procedures
• Develop detailed future state map
• New workflow
• Value Add and Non- Value Add
• Cycle times
• Identify Kaizen “bursts” (immediate radical
change)
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Implementation Plan
1. Think global / systems optimization.
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Execute
1. Develop a concise, achievable milestone plan.
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Check and Sustain
1. Meet regularly (weekly?) to review status of open implementation items.
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Example Kaizen project
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