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Lean Six Sigma Work-Out and Kaizen events

Lean Six Sigma Work-Out and Kaizen events

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

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Lean Six Sigma Work-Out and Kaizen events

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- Have you ever wished, if you could only gather the right people together, put them all in a room, and pick their brains to address a problem or improve a work area or process? Well, now you can. It's called a Kaizen, Work-out, Lean or Rapid Improvement Event. Kaizen comes from the Japanese. Loosely translated it's "change for the better" or simply put, improvement. Sometimes it is called a Lean event, a Rapid Improvement Event or a Work-out. The term "Work-out" was coined at GE. It's actually to take unnecessary work out of the process. To streamline and make it more efficient. Kaizen is a well-organized, structured and facilitated event to improve a work area, a department, a process, or an entire value stream. These events can vary from one to five days, depending on the objective and scope of the Kaizen. Such as to understand how the value stream flows, or does not flow due to mistakes, delays, and bottlenecks in order to improve it. Prioritize what is important to customers of a…

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