Study About Kaizen Or Process Continuous Improvement

By Agung Adiwijaya

Maybe not all people have ever heard about process continuous improvement. Because this words is seldom enough to be found in newspaper and all audio visual media. Fortunately for man who are working or maybe have ever worked in factory they must be used to with term of process continuous improvement. Because this word has always in purrs to give breathe life spirit into the employees so they can give the best effort. Process continuous improvement is kaizen.

What Is Process continuous improvement or kaizen? Process continuous improvement or kaizen is a continuous activity to increase from current standard condition to reach better condition. Why should we have to reach better condition? Because we must always be able to give the best service or product to our customer? If we didn't give the best service or product to our customer, whereas our rival did the Process continuous improvement hence for certain time we will lose our customer significantly. Losing of customer is a death for a business unit. That's why Process continuous improvement or kaizen is the final price which must be choose so we can always gives the best for our customer

From the book which I read from Maasaki Imai I have obtained some interesting fact about Process continuous improvement or the kaizen. The fact is in Japan public, kaizen term or Process continuous improvement is common word to be told in daily life. All TV and newspaper many times mentioning these words in everyday context including governmental functionary. So obviously if kaizen or process improvement became a real very strong culture or habits in Japan. On the other side like explained by the books above if in America nor European countries initially fairly not recognizes term kaizen very well. They are more recognizing big innovation term or jumping movement or quantum movement. From their point of view continuous improvement or kaizen not more than like small steps of innovation which the effect often not directly seen. Lately - from the same books - They cooperated with their Japan principal to adopt kaizen soul and implement at the shop floor.

I have just write down in paragraph two that kaizen or process continuous improvement are all activity which must take to improve current standard to become a better standard. The keyword here is standard. What is standard anyway? Standard are sets of rule which have been specified for machine, tools, material and man that you must obey in order to get a good quality product with efficient, low cost consistently. Remember consistently. It means we can do the activity over and over with same result. The first step before doing kaizen or process continuous improvement are determining value standard for a basis point of improvement. If current condition there is no value standard then you must create one for current condition. That is the easy way as a starting point.

Why we need standard first before kaizen? The reason is simple. We can not measure our achievement if there is no standard value to be compared. For example: cycle time standard for finishing product are 1 minute. Then market demand is high. It means we must decrease our cleaning product time to be less than one minutes. So we are told success executed our kaizen or process improvement if we can reduce time below 1 minute.

In the next article. I would explain tools for doing kaizen or process continuous improvement. If there is some question. Just ask. Happy kaizen. - 31963

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