"Kaizen means improvement Moreover It means continuing improvement in personal life, home life, social life, and working life When applied to the workplace Kaizen means continuing incremental improvement involving everyone--managers and workers alike " (Kaizen Institute)
Continuous improvement - usually, but not always, applied to improving manufacturing performance through the elimination of waste The philosophy of kaizen is to make gradual improvements at little or no cost - use your knowledge, not your money Kaizen is a compound word, "kai" meaning change and "zen" better (or 'for the better')
The philosophy of continual improvement Kaizen supports the idea that there is always room for improvement even if substantial improvement has just occurred
*: A Japanese term referring to continual improvement involving everyone at every level in an organization It is a strategy to improve and maintain all processes through gradual, incremental improvements
The process of continuous improvement in production and every aspect of value added (Japanese) Kanban Control system on the factory floor to keep production moving (Japanese) Key factors for success Those resources, skills and attributes of the organisations in an industry that are essential to deliver success in the market place Sometimes called critical success factors Knowledge A fluid mix of framed experience, values, contextual information and expert insight Note that knowledge is not 'data' or 'information' Knowledge management The retention, exploitation and sharing of knowledge in an organisation that will deliver sustainable competitive advantage
The Japanese process of continuous improvement in the organization's production system from numerous small, incremental improvements in production processes
A Japanese term that means gradual unending improvement by doing little things better and setting and achieving increasingly higher standards Masaaki Imai made the term famous in his book, Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success
an improvement, continual improvement in personal life, home life, social life and working life In the workplace Kaizen means continuing improvement involving everyone regardless of position
(Ticaret) The Japanese process of continuous improvement using problem-solving and analysis techniques that may include the use of fishbone diagrams, control charts, affinity diagrams and other tools
Taken from the Japanese words kai and zen where kai means change and zen means good The popular meaning is continual improvement of all areas of a company not just quality Knit mark - Where raw stock did not unite into a homogeneous mass during the vulcanization This is also called poor knitting See Flow marks L
Japanese for Continuous Improvement Based on the philosophy that what we do today should be better than yesterday and what we do tomorrow should be better than today, never resting or accepting status quo