Kaizen Events. A kaizen event (aka “kaizen blitz” or “kaizen workshop”) commonly last five days. During the event, a team identifies and implements a significant improvement in a process. A common example is creating a continuous flow cell within a week. To do this a kaizen team analyzes, implements, tests, and standardizes a new cell.

2016年4月25日 · When something isn’t working in a hospital, the cause can often be traced to other departments. At Hillcrest, when a card goes up on the kaizen board, the frontline staff are empowered and increasingly comfortable reaching out to facilities, or IT, or clinical engineering, to talk about what’s wrong with a process.

2017年11月12日 · If the idea only concerns the team, it still needs to be explained to every other team member, as well as members from other shifts, but it can well stay on a local idea or kaizen board. If the idea has implications beyond the team, it can be presented as a QC story. Here’s a great example from Art Smalley and Durward Sobek.

Team Board Form (from Getting the Right Things Done) A team board is a window on both routine and improvement work. The board on this template addresses both daily production and strategic issues, and is organized according to SQDCM—safety, quality, delivery, cost, and morale. Download

A group kaizen activity, commonly lasting five days, in which a team identifies and implements a significant improvement in a process. A common example is creating a continuous flow cell within a week. To do this a kaizen team—including staff experts and consultants as well as operators and line managers—analyzes, implements, tests, and standardizes a […]

This is a repeating four-step routine by which an organization improves and adapts. It makes continuous improvement through the scientific problem-solving method of plan, do, check, act (PDCA) a daily habit.

PDCA is the foundation of continuous improvement or kaizen. Leaders set targets (plan) against a stable baseline of performance. Teams implement improvements (Do) to achieve the targets. Then they measure (Check) the change to evaluate performance against the target.

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2020年6月15日 · Among them: figuring out how to conduct kaizen events when not everyone can go to the gemba. The members of the #LeanCommunity who have experimented with virtually holding kaizen events are sharing their countermeasures. “We began by using a digital process-mapping tool to diagram what the team ‘says’ is the current process.

2015年10月20日 · But in my mind, the essence of kaizen is to make incremental sustained improvements every day through observing the work and eliminating the burden, inconsistency and strain we often allow processes to operate with. I have led many successful kaizen activities that target just those three things: burden, inconsistency and strain.