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It
is undeniable: Kaizen Events have been helping people improve their business
and accept the fact that change is mandatory and beneficial for all. Along with
the magnificent strength of the Lean Manufacturing Strategies comprised in the
Toyota Production System, the Kaizen Event was born as the best alternative to
adult Education and Training.
How to Develop a Kaizen Event? and WHY?
For any company willing to embark
into Lean Manufacturing there is a procedure that will be the key to successful
implementation of any of the appropriate strategies. Our customers have found it
easier than they thought and the results have been surprising and consistent, so
they keep improving again and again…
even after the consultant has left the plant.
Many of our visitors at http://www.TPMonLine.com/, and
www.PapaKaizen.com have expressed
interest in developing Kaizen Events on their own. That is exactly the purpose
of this electronic book: Help you develop your own Kaizen Events.
Let us analyze some
guidelines that may help us norm the development of our workshop.
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Start
Always On Time
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If you are not punctual, you can never be a leader
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Use
times like 7:59 13:31 to make the appointments unique
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Start even if only one person has shown up
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Publish Agenda and Follow Published Agenda
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Review Objectives And Desired Outcome and let people tell
you what they expect from the workshop and from you
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Make sure some Operators Are Present
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Appoint
Appropriate Mixed Roles
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Establish
Reasonable Break Times
Usually 13 or 14 minutes
for every 90 minutes of work
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Actively Participate When You Think is Appropriate
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Let people express their opinions and concerns
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Stay On The Subject
Especially when people get enthused with
the improvements they could
lose focus
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Only One Person Should Talk At A Time
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Do Not Allow Side Conversations
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No Interruptions
Turn off pagers, telephones, etc.
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As each session ends:
Recap Findings, Decisions And Action Plan
Acknowledge each person's contributions to the team
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Do Effectiveness Evaluation
Ask the participants how they feel about the achievements
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End On Time
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As the Workshop Reaches the End:
Complete Management Presentations
Kaizen, the Key to
Lean Manufacturing Implementation
Graphic 1
Created by Masaaki Imai,
Kaizen is a “New Way” of conducting business. It would be fair to say… a
“Much Better Way” of doing business. The awareness of a more competitive business
world is the first step in the process.
If you can admit that the
business environment today is not the same that it was thirty or more years
before, then you will also admit that in order to succeed today or even to
survive, your ways of doing business will have to change too. You must
objectively develop an image of the new setting that you will have in your
plant. That will be your new “comfort level”.
In the past, just keeping
the same process with the same cost of operation at the same pace was enough to remain in business. Today, after
some important movements in world politics and economy, along with technological
advances, conditions are substantially different.
The most interesting part of
this is: You and your people already know what to change and how to do it! That is
the Power of your company and the most important resource: your people. So,
let’s put all that creativity and intelligence to work for you and support all
these new ideas. That is your commitment to your own success.
Some times, though, being so
obvious it is at the same time overwhelming. It is very hard to define what the
starting point should be in this transformation. If you look at the whole change
it may seem an impossible task. The good news is that Kaizen Events are the
Method to get started and take you step by step to the achievements that your
business requires. We have seen Kaizen Events work for all kinds of plants,
service companies and even administrative
areas and health care
institutions. We are confident that you will
also be able to experience a successful transformation in your operations with
the Power of Kaizen.
This electronic manual is
obviously under “Kaizen” continuous improvement all the time, and you will
be able to access the newest version every time you come to read it. We are also
open 24/7 to your comments so we can improve the service that our manuals can provide
to all our customers.
Please feel free to email
me anytime.
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