Author: Michael D. Regan
Publisher: Holden Press
Keywords: revolution, kaizen
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0966354974
ISBN-13: 9780966354973
The remarkable new strategy to implement lean manufacturing and improve quality, cost, and delivery. Understand why traditional improvement strategies don’t work, and why Kaizen Events are the ideal tool to achieve breakthrough results. How to grow your own internal Kaizen Event leaders even if you start with outside consultants. Review a checklist of preparatory steps you must take to lead your kaizen team to success. Understand the results your Kaizen Events should deliver, and how to set achievable breakthrough goals. How to chose team members for your Kaizen Events, and why
Author: Kenneth W. Dailey
Publisher: DW Publishing Co.
Keywords: handbook, pocket, kaizen
Number of Pages: 41
Published: 2005-10-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0974722162
ISBN-13: 9780974722160
The Kaizen Pocket Handbook provides a quick practical reference guide for Kaizen and Kaizen Events. The Kaizen portion of the pocket handbook contains basic information on the history, benefits, definition, and fundamental concepts of Kaizen. It identifies and defines the three types of improvement and explains their different roles in Kaizen. Other topics covered include: operating principles, teams, processes, records, the Deming Improvement Cycle, management/employee responsibilities, and program implementation. The Kaizen Event portion of the pocket handbook flow-charts and details both th
Author: Geoffrey Mika
Publisher: Society of Manufacturing Engineer
Keywords: manual, implementation, event, kaizen
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-08-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0872638499
ISBN-13: 9780872638495
Originally used by Toyota, kaizen is a results-oriented tool that fosters continuous improvement. In the United States, kaizen is usually an event of from three to five days in duration. It is comprised of intensive improvement activities directed at specific areas of a business. The main goal of kaizen is the elimination of non-value-added activities (waste) through the implementation of one-piece flow, working to takt time, and instituting a pull system. The mantra is to manufacture only what is needed by the customer, when it is needed, and in the quantities ordered. Kaizen has been shown t
Author: Hitoshi Takeda
Publisher: Kogan Page
Keywords: time, kaizen, going, system, production, synchronized
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2006-09-28
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0749447656
ISBN-13: 9780749447656
A broad production paradigm which incorporates an array of manufacturing principles, such as Just-in-Time (JIT) inventory systems, teamwork, multi-tasking, employee involvement schemes and policies for ensuring product quality throughout the production process. Now in its first English edition, "The Synchronic Production System" focuses on he Japanese concept of "kaizen," or "continuous improvement," to demonstrate how smaller, easily adopted improvements can increase performance and reduce production costs. Hitoshi Takeda covers the six elements of Kaizen, flow processes, production, levele
Author: Robert Maurer
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Keywords: kaizen, way, life, change, small, one
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0761129235
ISBN-13: 9780761129233
Introducing the practical and inspirational guide to incorporating Kaizen and its powerful principles into one’s daily life. Rooted in the two thousand-year-old wisdom of the Tao Te Ching--"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"--Kaizen is the art of making great and lasting change through small, steady increments. Kaizen is the tortoise versus the hare. Kaizen is the eleven Fortune 500 companies that significantly outperformed the market through moderate, step-by-step actions. Kaizen is losing weight not by a crash diet (which more often than not crashes) but by eati
Author: Masaaki Imai
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Keywords: success, competitive, japan, key, kaizen
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1986-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 007554332X
ISBN-13: 9780075543329
Author: Masaaki Imai
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: approach, management, cost, low, kaizen, commonsense, gemba
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0070314462
ISBN-13: 9780070314467
When it comes to making your business more profitable and successful, don’t look to re-engineering for answers. A better way is to apply the concept of kaizen, which mean making simple, common-sense improvements and refinements to critical business processes.The result: greater productivity, quality, and profits achieved with minimal cost, time, and effort invested. In this book, you discover how to maximize the results of kaizen by applying it to gemba--business processes involved in the manufacture of products and the rendering of services--the areas of your business where, as the auth
