Process Continuous Improvement Or Kaizen Study

By Agung Adiwijaya

Term of Process Continuous Improvement maybe sound strange for some people. Because these term actually not many say at the local newspaper or television. Nonetheless for an employee that works at the factory these terms is very familiar. Because his boss always push him to do Process Continuous Improvement. In other word Process Continuous Improvement means Kaizen.

So what is kaizen or process continuous improvement anyway? Kaizen or process continuous improvements are all activity which must take to improve current standard to become a better standard. No need to be a big jump just a little change that would be enough. The keyword is continuous, the never ending activity. Question? Why we should do kaizen. Simple to be answer. Because our competitor did kaizen or process continuous improvement. So if you want to survive in hard and hurts competition there is no excuse to not doing kaizen. The faster you do the better you are. If you did not the kaizen or process continuous improvement then you and your company will be history.

I read many good books about kaizen. Then I tell you ones of good books are “kaizen” by Masaaki Imai. Read the book then you will find some interesting data for example. In Japan the term of kaizen or process continuous improvement is a common word. You will find those word easily at newspaper, television even governmental functionary conversation. It is like kaizen or process continuous improvements are blood for them. On the contrary in European country nor American in the beginning did not assume kaizen or process continuous improvements are the important thing to do. They definitely like innovation, big innovation as a basis of change. Kaizen or process continuous improvement just a small step to better condition which difficult to see. Lately, in order to faces tough competition they and their Japan principal regularly try to implement kaizen at the shop floor. What a wise decision isn’t it?

Like I have already explained above. The Process continuous improvement or kaizen is a continuous activity to increase from current standard condition to reach better condition. The keyword which must be underlined is standard. Standard are sets of rule or order which has been specified from an activity including here are arrangement for machine, tool, methods, process setting, material, man as well as an area of to be obtained safely activity process, quickly and with good quality consistently. So we are necessary to specify standard beforehand, before doing continuous improvement process or kaizen. What if the standard not yet available? Hence we must have to standardize first, the easiest way is standardize the current process for starting point.

Why we should do standardization before doing kaizen or process continuous improvement? It is a simple. We can not measure the kaizen or process continuous improvement achievement whether success or not. For example. I have standardized that we need sixth movement to cleaning product properly. So if we have 100 products that we should do 600 movements. So if we can reduce man movement from 6 movements per product become 4 movements per product without reduce in quality then we have succeeded do kaizen or process continuous improvement of man movements. But if we did not specify standard how many man movements to clean the product then we don’t know whether 4 man movements are succeeded or not.

We will continue studies of process improvement later. In coming article we will try to study about real Case and any kinds of tools which needed to do Process continuous improvement or kaizen. Hopefully we are always success. Happy kaizen.

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