Kaizen – Changes for good

Kaizen Made From Two Words “Kai’ + “Zen”

Kai = Change & Zen = Good

Can be Consider = “Change for Good”

Kaizen is a Japanese word that use in business philosophy for enhance improvement in working habit, “Continuous Improvement” is the base of Kaizen.

Kaizen philosophy say that to increment small changes for improving productivity & Reduce real waste which came from steps of process in any organization that dealings for implementing constant improvement.

Cycle for Continuous improvement to reduce & control on Waste generation

What is goal to implement “Kaizen” in organization?

• Reduce Production & Process wastes on each step of procedures.
• Reduce Inventory waste that generates by unorganized inventory practice.
• Reduce time gaps for run any order or process on floor called time waste.
• Workers movement – waste time of company & reduce self utilization by this method can reduce it.

Management Support

Kaizen is needs to frequently update at places where expecting improvement. The process never ending process of achieving step by step small improvements within the workplace. For each day of year is in difference to trying to achieving advance goals and targeted results from a large improvement, once in a whereas.

It is also management technique that management trying to improve individual employee tasks improvement. To provide culture to achieve log term gains from a continuous applying this procedures in processes.

Implementation phase

Kaizen process needs each employee contribution in each process to improve seamlessly. Every employee should be properly trained by management as in appropriate locations and concern job. Each employee should be manage its communication and technique to other persons as and when required to better communication in each process.

The processes must dedicated & committed to improve kaizen in workplace as engaged with processes. Management must also be provides proper support the kaizen system. The structured according organization requirements by aligning resources and encouragement to all employees to contribute in their concern job tasks.

Eliminating Waste (Muda)

In kaizen, the key objective is systematic process to identify, reduce, and eliminate waste.

Waste can be in any form : Which does not add value to product / service
It can be in form of any activity, Resources, or process.

What you lose due to waste?
Time loss, effort loss, space loss, and money loss.

Muda 7 Wastes

1. Unnecessary Movement (Motion Waste)
2. Waiting Time (Idle Time)
3. Overproduction
4. Defects (Rework or Scrap)
5. Excess Inventory
6. Unnecessary Processing (Over-processing)
7. Transportation Waste

Long term competitive strategy

The management teams should be aware the system and needs to managed required participant.

To define kaizen’ basic principles, and same the deployment in the system. Management takes the right project is also important with assignment of proper role and responsibility for each kaizen event.

Also each kaizen required process should perform as per planning and its preparation. The kaizen implementation required tools should choose as identified requirements to easier for performing and follow up.