Kaizen Introduction

Kaizen comes from Japanese culture, the word Kaizen consists of two words is "Kai" means change and "Zen" is better, Kaizen means change for the better.
1950, Kaizen is implemented in many good improvement in a company or of everyday life in Japan.
1986, Kaizen has been recorded by Mr. Masaaki Imai in his book with title "Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success”.
1993, Kaizen is recognized by the "New Shorter Oxford Dictionary Home" as the English language which means continuous improvement.
1997, Kaizen has been recorded by Mr. Masaaki Imai in his book with title "Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management”.
Kaizen is not just continuous improvement, but more than that, Kaizen is "everyday improvement," "everybody improvement", and "everywhere improvement".
"Kaizen is everyday improvement" means Kaizen not only for once suces improvement, but after get success with yesterday improvement so today must began with new improvement, its mean everyday always find challange improvement ideas, it goes every day.
 "Kaizen is everybody improvement" means Kaizen not for shop floor workers only but Kaizen for all employees from top manager until shop floor worker. Kaizen is not for employees only but also for all people who live.
"Kaizen is everywhere improvement" means Kaizen not for shop floor manufacturing environment only, but Kaizen also for administration,  office, design development, human resources, sales, and every where.
Kaizen philosophy is all the action we must always focus on continuous improvement in all areas of our lives, such as work environment, social environment, and household environment.
Kaizen concept is already felt so natural, reasonable, and properly understood by many Japanese people, even they do not realize that they have a Kaizen because Kaizen is a habit for the Japanese.
Kaizen has a lot to contribute to the success of Japan in the competition, different from the Innovation Kaizen, Kaizen improvements do not change greatly but Kaizen make changes gradually improved gradually but the results are very much with the foundations of a very strong improvement and safe, because Kaizen done by involving all levels of people with a sense of continuous improvement consistently.
Kaizen is able to run in a variety of companies, even by a small capital companies, as Kaizen does not cost much and does not require great resources, as opposed to innovations that require a very large cost hard to run by a small capital companies.
Kaizen umbrella various management practices in Japan such as 5S (Japanese Cleanliness), TQC (Total Quality Control), Quality Control (QC) Circle, Zero Defect, JIT, SS (Suggestion System), TPM, TQM, and so on.

The main concept of Kaizen

Kaizen and Management
In the context of kaizen, management has two main functions of the Maintenance and Improvement (illustration pict-1).
Maintenance: activities to maintain the technological, managerial systems, the existing operational standards, and maintaining these standards through training and discipline, management efforts so that everyone can follow SOP.
Improvements: activities that lead to the increase in the existing standards, improvements can be divided into two, namely innovation and kaizen (illustration pict-2). 


pict-1. Management has maintenance and improvement 

 
 pict-2. Improvement has innovation and kaizen 




Kiazen Oriented in Process
Kaizen emphasizes process-oriented mindset, because the process must be improved so that results can be improved, the results that failed is a reflection from the failure of process. Management must find, identify and correct errors in the process. Kaizen focuses on the human, this concept is a very opposite with western concept that focus on result.


pict-3. Process oriented vs Result oriented

Kiazen run PDCA-cycle 
The first step in Kaizen is run PDCA-cycle (Plan Do Check Action), the PDCA-cycle was introduced by WE Deming has been practiced in Japan in kaizen activity is a means to ensure the sustainability of kaizen activities to realize the maintaining and improvement.
PDCA cycle is illustrated in pict-4 describes the PDCA wheel must be rotated upward through the maintenance of (horizontal) to achieve stability and improvement activities (upward sloping) to increase even higher.
PDCA wheel must always run up without stopping, its mean improvement is never ending.

 
pict-4. PDCA-cycle Illustration
 
Kaizen most Important is Quality
Kaizen placed the quality on the top priority, quality have large meaning, quality is QCDSME (Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety, Moral, Environment).
Improving the quality is the main goal of kaizen, that is increase Quality, reduce Cost, reduce lead time process until delivery, increase good Safety, increase good moral, increase Environment healthy.


Kaizen Speak with Data
Kaizen always keep consistency in analyzing the problem base on correct facts, using the correct data will give correct solution. Kaizen describe methode of problem solving by systematically steps. Kaizen is not give permit to problems is going on continue, but use the problems as examination to find good solution so everything will be more perfect.
  
Kaizen Assume That The Next Process is The Customer
Accordance with the kaizen principal that is process oriented, kaizen has princip that the next process is the customer for the previous process, this princip applied throughout the internally process chain, with implementation this princip, the quality will always be maintained since early, and assured the quality that out of the company are the best quality.
Each process do the simple 3 way:
          1. Not input things of defect or not conformity
          2. Not procss things of defect or not conformity
          3. Not out things of defect or not conformity.



 pict-4. Each process assume the next process is customer

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