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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Kaizen Event"”.
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Critical Success Factors for Sustaining Kaizen Event Outcomes
A Kaizen event is a focused and structured improvement project, using a dedicated cross-functional team to improve a targeted work area, with specific goals, in an accelerated timeframe. Kaizen events have been widely reported to produce positive change in business results and human resource …
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An Empirical Investigation of Kaizen Event Effectiveness: Outcomes and Critical Success Factors
… results from a multi-site field study of 51 Kaizen event teams in six manufacturing organizations. Although Kaizen events have been growing in popularity since the mid 1990s, to date, there has been no systematic empirical research on the determinants of Kaizen event effectiveness. To address …
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How Kaizen Group Leader Selection Affects Group Participation
… Lean principles and practices indicate Kaizen Event members will contribute regardless of legitimate power levels, due to member training, education, and the Lean team-oriented culture. Further study is needed to determine if Lean culture and training maximize group member contribution, …
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Production line design and system analysis for new product introduction in electronics manufacturing
… were refined by modeling the line in a discrete event simulation to emulate existing factory constraints. The use of simulation enabled definition of lower level details like shift breaks times, machine breakdown trends and product batching policies. The simulation model was used to predict the …
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Development of a Student Operated Production Facility using Discrete Event Simulation and Continuous Improvement
… of a digital twin, leveraging discrete event simulation to amplify the modeling and analytic capabilities of the student operators. A comprehensive characterization of the initial state of operations was conducted, revealing the existence of hidden factories and various types of waste. …
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Design and implementation of a continuous improvement framework, focusing on material and information flow, for the manufacturing of organic photovoltaics
… flow, through Shop floor reorganization Kaizen event, while briefly describing other improvements that were implemented as a Team. These included an online barcode part tracking system and Kanban cards Information boards, a Production scheduling tool to help achieve an efficient …
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Impulse mixer technology reliability and redesign improvement in biotechnology drug substance manufacturing
… and with operators using the impulse mixer. A kaizen event to discuss impulse mixer failure was conducted for three days with ten key stakeholders from all manufacturing plants. A survey was implemented to gather and assess operators' perspectives (n=12) on the impulse mixer technology. …
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An Empirical Investigation on the Critical Success Factors for Kaizen Events in Hospitals
A Kaizen event (KE) may be defined as a structured improvement project that uses a cross-functional team and specific improvement goals to improve a targeted work area or process in an accelerated time frame. KEs, also known as Rapid Improvement Events (RIEs), have been utilized within hospitals to …
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Impact of Improving Throughput in the Emergency Department
… and implemented through a hospital-wide Kaizen event focused on throughput of the admitted patient (Appendix A). According to King (2010), “the Japanese words Kai and Zen literally means “to change” and “for the better”, and it has come to symbolize continuous improvement” (slide 5). …
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Lean concepts in customer care : adding value and reducing waste with proactive order status messaging
… IT, and logistics organizations to sponsor a kaizen event to bring all of the key stakeholders together to design an ideal state, end-to-end proactive order status messaging process.
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M28 Fixed wing transport aircraft cost reduction
… and composite materials. Lastly, a discrete Kaizen event was described to aid redesign-for-manufacturing.
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An Empirical Investigation of Critical Success Factors for Continuous Improvement Projects in Hospitals
… accelerated improvement projects such as Kaizen events, Kaizen blitz, or rapid improvement projects. Alternatively, an organization utilizing Six Sigma as an improvement approach may have Six Sigma projects that use the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process and statistical …