Context and Challenges A fast-growing professional services firm was experiencing pressure on its HR function as headcount and expatriate staff increased: Recruitment & selection involved...
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Context and Challenges A global professional services firm was expanding rapidly in the GCC region, with KSA emerging as an important and fast-growing territory. Finance...
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Lean in Hospitals
Lean in Hospitals Lean methodology in healthcare emphasizes continuous improvement, patient safety, and employee engagement without overburdening individuals. It aligns hospital missions with daily practices,...
Conducting Kaizen Workshops for accelerating improvement Kaizen workshops are structured team activities aimed at swiftly applying lean methods to eliminate production waste in specific shopfloor...
Using Kaizen to Reduce Costs in Poultry Farms Can continuous improvement or Kaizen actually reduce costs in Poultry Farms? Let’s find out! But first, we...
Improving Manpower Productivity in Sugar Industry through Lean Manufacturing Lean Manufacturing has always been known for ‘more enhancements’ and ‘less diminutions.’, But who knew that...
How to Increase Manpower Productivity in Medical Device Manufacturing (Pharmaceutical Business) Medical Device manufacturing involves lot of manual work, thus faces challenges in manpower productivity....
Lean Implementation in Pharmaceutical industry The Indian Pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a very interesting shift; at one hand it is creating its own mark in...
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Lean Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing Lean Manufacturingsimply means eliminating waste from manufacturing processes including waste of work in progress and finished goods inventories. What is waste? Waste is...
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TPM in Filling Lines
TPM in Filling Lines First step is to measure the OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) accurately and understand the losses. All Major losses should be selected...
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Benefits of 5S (Five S)
Benefits of 5S (Five S) Companies implementing 5S experience many benefits from implementing the five pillars of 5S, such as increasing product diversity, raising quality,...
What is Corrective & Preventive actions in Root Cause Analysis? Corrective & Preventive actions are two most common actions identified as a part of doing...
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How to Implement Lean Manufacturing?
How to Implement Lean Manufacturing? Lean Manufacturing has become very popular in India & some countries in East Africa. however implementing Lean in right way...
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Benefits of Value Stream Mapping
Benefits of Value Stream Mapping Value stream mapping also known as Material & Information flow mapping in Toyota Motors, is more than a tool to...
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How to Conduct Lean Kaizen Event
How to Conduct Lean Kaizen Event | Kaizen Workshops? A Lean or Kaizen Event, also referred to as a Kaizen Workshop, Kaizen Blitz, Breakthrough Kaizen,...
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Problem Solving needs simple thinking!
Problem Solving needs simple thinking! An engineer in a car manufacturing company designs a world class car. The owner is impressed with the outcome and...
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What is 5S system in Kaizen
What is 5S system in Kaizen | Lean Manufacturing 5S is foundation for implementation of Lean Manufacturing / Kaizen / TPM etc. if Gemba is...
What is Waste in Lean Manufacturing / Kaizen? Way to reduce costs through lean manufacturing or kaizen is all about identification, reduction and elimination of...
How do you teach your new recruits to spot waste in your process? Training the new recruits in a Manufacturing environment is a great responsibility...
Role Internal Kaizen Facilitator / Kaizen Coordinator To become self-sustaining in Kaizen Lean journey, an organization’s ultimate goal should be to develop a team of...
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Kaizen Story / QC Story
Kaizen Story / QC Story The Kaizen story is a standardised format to record kaizen activities conducted by such small-group activities as quality circles. The...
Implementing Kaizen in Maintenance department Kaizen, Lean, TPM, the 80/20 rule, 5S. They are all management philosophies that can be applied to the practical aspects...
Kaizen Implementation through Kaizen Workshops In the world of continuous improvement (CI), Kaizen may perhaps be the most misunderstood concept. We’ve heard executives refer to...
Learning to see waste: Standing in a Circle exercise Learning to identify the seven types of waste (MUDA) is first challenge in implementing Lean Kaizen....
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5S /5K implementation in Kaizen
5S /5K implementation in Kaizen Many companies begin their lean improvement journey by first implementing 5S, the Japanese methodology minimizing errors and mistake proofing: seiri...
Root Cause Analysis in Kaizen Lean Why Why Analysis or 5 Whys is a well-known root cause analysis technique that originated at Toyota and has...