IN A GOOD YEAR, THE U.S. manufacturing sector might chalkup a 4% overallincrease in productivity. At the plant level, some top-flight produc-tion operations have achieved gains of 20% or more in a 12- ...

Continuous improvement has become a must-have business mindset to innovate and stay ahead of competition. Working in manufacturing, you probably know kaizen— the Japanese word often translated as ...

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The 1% Rule Is Not a Metaphor Kaizen, the Japanese word combining kai (change) and zen (good), was first applied ...

Companies need to learn how to control the controllables. Now more than ever, it’s seemingly impossible to predict what’s ...

THE word Kaizen is translated from Japanese to mean "continuous improvement." Kaizen events are an organized team effort to improve reliability of a process, reduce setup/lead times, streamline a ...

Kaizen, a Japanese term that means “change for the better,” has been adapted by organizations as a business strategy aimed at establishing an environment of continuous improvement. The goal of Kaizen ...

Originally used by the Toyota company in Japan in the 1950s, Kaizen ("good change") is a philosophy and management approach of continuous improvement that can be applied to various aspects of life, ...

The Japanese concept of kaizen fits perfectly into DevOps by pushing people to take responsibility for their operations and fix mistakes as they crop up. Do you see the similarities in this approach ...