Kaizen

Strategic Kaizen principles offer a roadmap for businesses to improve their efficiency and profitability by focusing on TAKT Profit. Learn how to align operations, reduce waste, and optimize workflow to achieve sustainable success.

Kaizen events are a powerful tool for organizations looking to improve their processes and achieve continuous improvement. When planning and executing a successful kaizen event, it is essential to follow a systematic approach that involves defining the problem and goal, identifying the team, developing an agenda, preparing the team, conducting…

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…