What is Kaizen?

 Kaizen is a Japanese word meaning Gradual,

Orderly, Continuous Improvement.

 1993 edition of the New Shorter Oxford English

Dictionary contained the word “Kaizen”. And
defines Kaizen as
“ Continuous improvement of working practices,
personal life, social life & home life as a
business philosophy.”
 What is Kaizen?
 Kaizen means:

Kai :- Change
Zen :- For Betterment

When applied to the work place, kaizen means

continuing improvement involving everyone
managers & workers alike.
 What is Kaizen?

 Kaizen leads to high productivity, quality & good

environment conditions, low cost & on time
delivery.

 Kaizen is a culture of sustained continuous

improvement focusing on eliminating waste in all
system & processes of an organization.
 Gemba Kaizen
Gemba History

 In business, three major activities directly

related to earning profits
1. Developing (design table, lab)
2. Producing (shop floor)
3. Selling (retail outlet, service centers)
In short “Gemba” means actual sites of these
three major activities.
 Gemba Kaizen
Gemba History
 Jan 1995, when earthquakes shook Kobe, T.V. reporters
at the scene referred to themselves as “reporting from
Gemba”- in background houses in flames or collapsed
elevated highways were shown.
 In business, the value adding activities happen in
Gemba.
 Joop Bokern, one of the first Kaizen consultant in
Europe, said whenever he visited a Japanese Co., he
had a rule of thumb to determine whether the company
was good or not. If he heard the word Kaizen in first 5
minutes & word Gemba in next 10 minutes,
he concluded that must be a good company.
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Objectives of Kaizen
Kaizen is related with day to day activities
 To eliminate MUDA, MURA, MURI.

 To improve productivity.

 To reduce cost

 To make operation standardization.

 To improve quality.

 To improve on time delivery.

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Muda (Waste)
There are seven types of wastages
 Over production
 Transport (transport of raw- material)
 Waiting
 Process (process which do not add value)
 Movement
 Stock (stores, warehouse)
 Inferior Production/ Rework/ Rejection.
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Muda (Waste)
S. Waste Nature of waste How to eliminate
No. Category
1. WIP Stocking items not immediately Streamline inventory.
needed
2. Rejection Producing defective products Reduce rejection

3. Facilities Idle M/C, breakdowns, excessive Increase capacity

set up time utilization ratio.

4. Expenses Over investing for required output Curtail expenses

5. Indirect Excessive personnel due to poor Assign job efficiently.

labour indirect labour system.
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Muda (Waste)
S. Waste Nature of waste How to eliminate
No. Category
6. Design Producing products with more Reduce costs
functions than necessary

7. Talent Employing people for jobs that Institute labour saving or

can be mechanized or assigned labour maximization
to less skilled people. Measurers.

8. Motion Not working according to work Improve work standards.

standard

9. New Slow start in stabilizing the Shift to full-time

product production of a new product. Production more quickly.
run-up
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Principles & Concept
 To identify
Muda means non-value adding activities.
Mura means inconsistencies.
Muri means irregularities in an activity.

 To find out root cause for above.

 To take countermeasures on root causes for

continuous improvement.
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Implementation
Following steps are used to implement Kaizen
 To generate Kaizen ideas.

 To evaluate & examine ideas.

 To find out root causes using why-why

analysis.
 To implement Kaizen idea.

 To deploy Kaizen idea horizontally.

 To present all the kaizen activity in suitable

format.
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Kaizen is to Eliminate MUDA
1. Eliminate MUDA related to :
1. Manpower
2. Machines & Equipments
3. Means
4. Quality Control
5. Material & Parts

2. Improvement of safety.
 MUDA Related to Manpower
 Monitoring (machines)
 Walking & Moving (layout)
 Conveyance (materials)
 Searching
 Irresolution (methods)
 Handling (products)
 Motion
 Reworking
 Idling
 MUDA Related to Machines &
Equipments
 Space and transportation
 Efficiency
 Leakage of oil
 Minor stoppage
 Cleaning (Prevention)
 Leakage of air & energy
 Lights on
 MUDA Related to Means
 Congestion (bottleneck process)
 Inventories
 Idling of machines
 Set up of machines
 Adjustments
 Wrapping and unwrapping
 MUDA Related to Quality
Control
 Production of defectives
 Reworking
 Fool proofing of automated machines
 Absence of standards
 Flaws caused by conveyance
 Inspections
MUDA Related to Materials. &
Parts
 Clamping with bolts
 Number of parts
 Deburring operations
 Heavy weight materials. & parts
 Expensive materials
 Scrap slug
 Improvement of Safety
 Danger at rotating parts
 Danger of being caught in moving machines
 Danger of being cut
 Danger of fall
 Danger of falling objects
 Danger of collision
 Danger related to handling
 Danger at restarting the machine
 Improvement of Safety
 Danger of electric shock
 Danger of accidents by toxic substances
 Danger of explosion
 Danger of high temperature
 Danger related to work done by inexperienced
persons.
 Danger from the absence of an established method
of use.
 Danger from absence of dangerous zone signs.
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Question to Generate Kaizen
 Can I reduce the strainIdeas
in the operation?
 Can this improvement be applied else where?
 Is there an alternative way to do it?
 Can this be reduced?
 Can this be increased?
 How can I identify the defect at source?
 What are the non-value adding operations?
 Can this be done in a faster, cheaper, safer, & easier
way?
 Can I reduce the variations?
 Kaizen
Seven Tools to Identify & Solve the Problem
 Causes and effect diagram.
 Check sheet
 Pareto chart
 Flow chart
 Brain storming
 Histogram
 Control chart
 Kaizen
Ask why 5 times & then how?
 Q.1 Why are you throwing saw dust on the floor?
A. “Because the floor is slippery and unsafe.”
 Q.2 Why is it slippery and unsafe?
A. “Because there is oil on it.”
 Q.3 Why is there oil on it?
A. “Because the machine is dripping.
 Q.4 Why is it dripping?
A. “Because oil is leaking from the oil coupling.”
 Q.5 Why is it leaking?
A. “Because the rubber lining inside the coupling is worn
out.”
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Ishikawa ( fishbone) diagram
 Diagram developed by Professor Kaoru
Ishikawa to show, causes (process) & the effect
(result).
 One of the basic tool of problem solving.

Cause Effect
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Practical part of Kaizen
 Form a small group of 5 to 7 people.
 Assign specific area for identification of Kaizen idea
 Use seven tools to identify root cause and to solve the
problem.
 Find out counter measure.
 Implement Kaizen idea.
 Assess the results.
 Decide horizontal deployment.
 Write the details in Kaizen-sheet.
 Asses the knowledge of participants through assessment
feedback form.
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Kaizen sheet
Please see the photograph of
Kaizen sheet board.
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A.Qualitype rsonnel
B. Productionpe rsonne l
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D.Anyoftheabove
E.None oftheabove .

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B.Teamwork
C.Costre duction
D .Noneof theabove .
E. All of theabove .
 5. ‘Cause & effect’ diagram is also known as:
A. Kobayashi diagram
B. Kiwi diagram
C. Ishikawa diagram
D. None of the above
E. All of the above.

 6. ‘Fish bone’ diagram is normally used for:

A. Root cause analysis.
B. Cost reduction
C. Calculating rejection ppm
D. None of the above
E. All of the above

 7. Which is of the following is an important aspect in Kaizen:

A. Sharing
B. Openness
C. Team work
D .None of the above
E. All of the above
Thank you!