Kaizen

A kaizen event, also known as a kaizen blitz, is a focused improvement effort that involves a team of workers working together to identify and eliminate waste or improve processes within a specific area of a business over a short period of time, typically one to three days.

In this article, I will briefly touch on the TPM concept and then describe how I used the elements; what I later learned through a TPS training by Toyota Engineering Corporation (TEC) was actually Equipment Kaizen. Anyway, we made the improvements through a Kaizen Event in 5 days, and it…

Kaizen is the critical tool for executing Continuous Improvement.

Kaizen is not about spending more money: we have the current resource and we find a way how to use them more efficiently.