Reference no: EM13877202

IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (KAIZEN EVENT)

1. Review process definition, measurements, and waste audit completed with process owners (or team members).

2. Develop a statement on what everyone wants to accomplish with this kaizen.

a. Organize area and tasks done to reduce time delays and improve quality.

3. Describe the conditions that everyone wants to achieve.

a. Awareness and support by process owners.
b. Ability to juggle additional work easier.
c. Less stress by working together better.
d. Better flow and distribution of activities.
e. x.

4. Brainstorm and list potential actions to take for improvements.

a. Organize area finding a place for everything needed for process and define a system for making sure everything is kept or returned to that place.
b. Standardize how activities are done across all process owners.
c. x.
d. x.
e. x.

5. Prioritize and select first actions to take. Develop an implementation plan. (last course assignment will be a master plan for further improvement needs)

Task Description	Person Responsible	Target Date	Completion Date
1. Throw out/remove not needed items
2. Review process definition and reassign tasks
3. Rearrange and organize area to support activities
4. x

6. Identify how these actions impacted performance measures for this process.

a. Prior Measures: 15 min. total
b. Improved Measures: 10 min. total
c. Impact Statement: 33% reduction in time, resulting in additional capacity to do more things and more consistent work.

7. Identify lessons learned during this kaizen event.

a. Need to better define process owners upfront to get more support.
b. Minor changes had measureable improvement results that motivated us to come up with more improvement ideas.