Kaizen: Achieving Efficiency in the Industry through Continuous Improvement

Critikon Vascular Access Facility of Johnson & Johnson Medical Inc. The Critikon Plant of Johnson & Johnson Medical Inc. was in a bad state in the beginning of 1991 and has been in competitive position in the past 5 years with more advanced products, high inventory levels, long lead times, consistent productivity I lost to. Despite capital investment and business restructuring, the factory has been stagnating for nearly four years. In June 1991, a timely and continuous improvement strategy was started to divide the entire management team, production staff, and head office staff into four project teams.

In order to achieve continuous improvement, several industries and companies all over the world have made Kaizen an integral part of the operational process. "Improvement" is a Japanese word meaning "improvement". This is the Japanese philosophy that refers to activities that continuously improve the functions and processes of organizations and individuals' efficiency. The implementation of Kaizen philosophy is common in various manufacturing industries, logistics companies and others. Recognizing the improvement in efficiency and productivity, Indian NGO Aksayapatra Foundation adopted kaizen for its process. Akshaya Patra is a lunch and drink NGO that offers lunch to 17,124 children in 36 kitchens in 12 states in India. For this purpose, NGO operates an intensive kitchen with distributed kitchens in remote areas as well as urban and semi-urban areas.

Kaizen is a philosophy that supports continuous and gradual process changes that maintain high efficiency. At a certain level, kaizen can help you personally improve your work by eliminating "waste". At the organization level, improvements can be a powerful team approach to exploiting the advice and involvement of people of all levels. By participating extensively, you can increase morale and satisfaction while increasing production, cost and other difficult measures. If you choose to bring improvements to the workplace, you will be amazed at how much you can influence by small changes and how the continual improvement culture can prosper .

Kaizen continues to improve - Kaizen is a gradual and continuous improvement that includes everyone in the organization. While improving quality, improvements mean continuous improvement, so improvements can be taken into account. We must point out that improvement will fail if there is no commitment and improvement of the concept. Kaizen is committed to segmenting the process, understanding how it works, understanding how to improve it and make it better. Kaizen is working on raising added value and eliminating waste in the process, Productivity Press (2002)