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Kaizen Blitz
Involve Your Workforce in the Pursuit of Eliminating Wastes!
What is a Kaizen Blitz?
A Kaizen Blitz is an intensive and focused approach to Process Improvement. Kaizen means "continuous improvement" and Blitz means "lightening fast."
This continuous improvement methodology combines Lean Manufacturing Tools to include:
- 5-S of Workplace Organization and Standardization
- Cellular Flow
- Pull Systems
- Kanban Systems
- Set-Up Reduction
- Line Balancing
- and Value Stream Mapping
Each tool incorporates team empowerment, brainstorming, and problem solving to rapidly make improvements to a specific product or portions of your processes.
Why do a Kaizen Blitz?
The Kaizen Blitz methodology has been used extensively for improving the organization of work in factories and actual methods used to manufacture products. The results are real-time with implementation occurring within a one-week format.
Not only will you obtain immediate improvements to your process-you will also develop a list of other improvement opportunities that your staff can investigate and implement after the Kaizen Blitz. The Kaizen Blitz will provide your company with immediate tangible results and motivation for ongoing continuous improvement within your company.
Benefits
- Immediate Results
- Involvement of the workforce
- Visual, action orientation
- Can use ongoing, once concepts are learned
- Fosters communications
- Creative vs. capital investments
- People think from "business" perspective
- Implementation smooth due to TEAM concept
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