Kaizen lean manufacturing - Continuously improve with MyPlantFloor

Eliminate waste

Kaizen is an approach to productivity improvement through the elimination of waste. The Kaizen Lean Manufacturing module in MyPlantFloor is an add-on that offers employees the option of registering and providing insight into waste in a simple way. In addition, the kaizen software module provides an overview of the process to quantify and eliminate waste.

What is Kaizen Lean Manufacturing?

The Japanese word 改 (“kai”) means “to change” and 善 (“zen”) means “good”. Kaizen is an approach to productivity improvement by eliminating waste (mudas i.e. activities that add cost but no value). It is a daily activity and a process that can make the organization more human. It eliminates unnecessary work and it teaches people to see and remove waste. Everyone participates in kaizen: people from all levels of an organization, from management to the shop floor. The PDCA circle is often used to eliminate waste, according to the principle:

· plan: set the goal and analyze the problem/waste;
· do: enter the default/modification and look at the effect;
· check: check the operation and the result;
· act: guarantee the improvement