Kaizen in Action. Tools for Companies. KD

The Basics of Kaizen

Learn to understand and apply Kaizen principles in both your work and personal life, implement Kaizen in business, engage employees, and achieve initial results

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What You Will Learn

Kaizen is one of the key management concepts, based on the continuous improvement of all production processes.

Learning outcome:

✓ Comprehensive understanding of Kaizen tools

✓ Acquiring the skill to identify 9 types of business waste

✓ Testing Kaizen tools through personal experience in training

✓ Receiving a step-by-step guide for implementing Kaizen tools in a company

Format of Conduct:

Course Volume:

1 day of productive training.

Duration:

10:00 AM - 7:30 PM

Teaching Methods:

Mini-lectures, games and exercises

Consolidation of Materials:

Kaizen implementation tasks for your business.

Practical Classes:

Visit to practical exercises at enterprises in Almaty upon request

Curriculum

Module 1. Basics of Kaizen

Day 1

1 day 10:00-19:30

Definition: what is kaizen. History and evolution of kaizen. Triad: why kaizen is needed.

Simulation game "Production", 3 rounds

Decryption of losses made by everyone.

The kaizen house - technologies and tools. 10 kaizen laws

Value stream mapping - VSM - current state (4th kaizen law).

Loading diagram - finding the bottleneck in the system (9th kaizen law).

Spaghetti diagram - current state (4th kaizen law).

Quality circles - system for collecting improvements (7th and 8th kaizen laws).

Kanban system (2nd and 5th kaizen laws).

Supermarket principle (2nd kaizen law)

TWI - training within industry system (9th and 10th kaizen laws)

5S - effective space organization (5th and 10th kaizen laws)

Video - observation of losses

Hoshin Kanri - policy deployment (6th and 2nd kaizen law)

OBEYA - visual management (6th kaizen law).

TPM - total productive maintenance (4th and 5th kaizen laws)

SMED - quick changeover (2nd, 9th, and 10th kaizen laws).

Work standardization - game. Create the standard (3rd, 5th, and 10th kaizen laws)

Constructing the spaghetti diagram (future).

Value stream mapping - VSM (future state).

TQM - integrating quality into the process Constructing flow: "just in time" system

Simulation game "Production", 4th round with the application of kaizen tools

Homework: Work plan based on training results