Kaizen Event Planning Training Ppt

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This slide provides an overview of the Kaizen Event for continuous improvement. It also explains that during the Kaizen Event, employees brainstorm to solve specific challenges, cut waste, maximize value, streamline flow and reduce errors.

Slide 4

This slide illustrates types of Kaizen events such as Point Kaizen, Line Kaizen, Plane Kaizen, and Cube Kaizen.

Instructor’s Notes:

Types of Kaizen events are:

Point Kaizen:

• Point Kaizen is well-known for its ready, aim, fire approach
• It focuses on quick changes required at workstations (departments and companies)
• After identifying the problem at the workstation, it considers measures that do not involve comprehensive planning to enforce a swift solution

Line Kaizen:

Plane Kaizen:

Cube Kaizen:

• Kaizen is used to make improvements in interconnected processes
• This type of event helps in developing and enhancing the company's business and positively impacting the supply chain as well as customers

Slide 5

This slide explains the ground rules of Kaizen event planning for continuous improvement. The steps are selecting a team, avoiding excessive analysis, avoiding perfection, communicating, having a positive attitude, and creating the scope for unlimited improvement opportunities.

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This slide illustrates the 5Ws (who, what, where, when, and why) to select Kaizen event for continuous improvements.

Instructor’s Notes:

The 5Ws to select a Kaizen event are:

What:

• What is the problem?
• What can be done to improve it?

Why:

• Why did something happen?
• If it is good, can it be used again? If it is bad, it can be changed?

When:

• When did it (malfunction) happen?
• When can it happen in future? 
• If there is an issue with the timing, then this step itself addresses the situation

Where:

• Where did it take place?
• Was the location good or bad? If it was bad, has the lesson been learnt the same location should not be used again

Who:

• Who is involved in the process?
• Are they the right people for the job or not?
• Changing which, and how many personnel, will lead to the desired outcome?

Slide 7 to 11

These slides provide information about what, why, when, where, and who aspect of the 5Ws of Kaizen for continuous improvement. 

Slide 12

This slide showcases the use of AEIOU scale (Absolute Critical, Especially Important, Important, Unimportant, and Ordinary) for selecting Kaizen projects. It is important to focus on the first three scales i.e., is absolutely critical, Especially Important, and Important.

Slide 13

This slide provides an overview of QCDSM in Kaizen. It also explains that QCDSM stands for quality, cost, delivery, safety, and morale. It is a strategy which is used for improving business processes throughout many industries.

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This slide illustrates Kaizen areas of Improvement Selection with QCDSM, which are Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety, and Morale.

Instructor’s Notes:

Kaizen areas of improvement can be selected with QCDSM as follows:

Quality:

• It is important that the products are of very high quality; this is non-negotiable
• It is also essential that the quality is consistently good
• Companies use varied techniques to improve the quality of their products

Cost:

• It is important to have competitive costs for products being put up for sale
• If the cost of the product is not reasonable, then no matter how good its quality. Consumers will not purchase the product
• Reducing waste and improving efficiencies are two of the many major ways to reduce cost of your product

Delivery:

• It is important to deliver the product on time, or customers will find another company which meets their expectations on timely delivery
• The company must plan and execute the delivery of all orders to ensure that they develop the capacity to deliver on time

Safety:

• A safe environment in the facility benefits everyone working in the company
• Everyone working in the facility has to prioritize identification and elimination of hazards

Morale:

• It is important to keep employees’ morale high for a positive impact on other areas of the business as well
• A company with high employee morale will perform much better than the one with low confidence among employees

Slide 29 to 44

These slides contain energizer activities that a trainer can employ to make the training session interactive and engage the audience.

Slide 45 to 72

These slides contain a training proposal covering what the company providing corporate training can accomplish for prospective clients.

Slide 73 to 75

These slides include a training evaluation form for the instructor, content, and course assessment to assess the effectiveness of the coaching program.