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Kaizen for streamlining and waste reduction

Kaizen for streamlining and waste reduction

From the course: Operational Excellence Work-Out and Kaizen Facilitator

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Kaizen for streamlining and waste reduction

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- The process is wasteful. You have been assigned by management to lead and facilitate a lean six sigma work-out and Kaizen event to streamline this process. Unlike our example in the value stream map and Kaizen event, where the purpose was just to map the process, here the mandate is to improve it, so bear that in mind. Start planning your events at least three weeks out. Depending on the size and complexity of the process, you might use two or more days. Here's a simple, sample agenda. You can see here Day 1 takes you from walking the process all the way to mapping the future state process. Day 2 is dedicated to operationalizing the future state. All the integrated details such as control plans and standard work procedures. After developing the agenda, you need to invite the right people to the event. So, who should you invite? Everyone in the process? No. Yes, you should invite those who know the process, but not everyone. Invite process owners and key operators from the process in…

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