Examples of kaizen

• A kaizen blitz, or rapid improvement, is a focused activity on a particular process or activity.

• Kaizen is based on all employees involvement and individual activities generally reach an improvement of less than 20%.

• Prior to kaizen costing, when the products are under development phase, target costing is applied.

• Following these principles, work processes are redesigned to eliminate waste (muda) through the process of continuous improvement kaizen.

• It is similar to the idea of kaizen which focuses on one process.

• The format for kaizen can be individual, suggestion system, small group, or large group.

• The process owner is continually involved with the operational managers and process operators as they use kaizen to continually improve the process as they are performing the work.

• Kaizen teams are based in every department.