kaizan

Related to kaizan: Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing

kaizan

a Japanese term meaning ‘continuous improvement’. Based on the ‘philosophy’ that QUALITY begins with the customer and that it is always possible to improve a product and a process. As customer requirements are always changing and because product standards are continually improving then the perception is that to stay in the market continual improvement is a necessary requirement for an organization. There are a number of guiding principals underpinning kaizan: these include, eliminating the task (in a similar way to BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING), reducing or changing activities and questioning the rules. Kaizan can be considered to be a part of LEAN MANUFACTURING. See JAPANIZATION, QUALITY COUNCIL, QUALITY CIRCLE, JUST-IN-TIME (JIT) SYSTEM.

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Jagdeep Single, and Harwinder Singh, Kaizan 2009, Philosophy: A Review of Literature, The Icfai University Press.

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Critical to your lean journey's success is knowing how and when to use improvement tools such as Six Sigma, value-stream mapping, standard work, Kanban systems, Kaizan events and others.

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Sir, - I would like to congratulate Keith Chadwick of Radshape Sheet Metals in Aston for rediscovering traditional British quality disciplines via O & M, which the Japanese call Kaizan (Post, January 23).

Letter: Let's get back to British basics

The revival of interest in job rotation came with the interest in Japanese management practices in the late 1980s, in which job rotation was a part of a set of practices that included teamwork and continuous improvement, or Kaizan.

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It started in 1993 after it became clear to me that the Kaizan [a term Sudanese use to refer to the Islamacists were not leaving power in my lifetime.