Advanced Kaizen Seminar Kitwe 18-09-2018

Dear Friends , It was a pleasure meeting you all today at Moba Hotel in Kitwe for the Advanced Kaizen Seminar (18th September 2018)

As promised please find link for the presentation that I made today . Should you have any doubts please do not hesitate to write to me with the subject header [Kaizen Club ] .

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iwhj4l3hgrjjhjt/Advanced%20Kaizen%20Seminar%20Kitwe%20KJ%20Presentation%2018092018.pdf?dl=0


Happy learning !

Krishnan Jagadheeswaran (KJ)
Specialised Systems Limited
Kaizen Club of Zambia

Annual Kaizen Conference 2018 -An inquiry into variation

I attended the Annual Kaizen Conference conducted by the Kaizen Insitute of Zambia and JICA between the 15th and 16th February 2018 at Mulungushi Conference Centre , Lusaka, Zambia . 

  A presentation was made by Adachi San of JICA on how Kaizen was implemented in one of the Toyota Transmission manufacturing units in Japan . He explained how Toyota management started focusing on various improvement initiatives starting from TQC ( Total Quality Control ) to TQM passing through stages of Kaizen and ISO 9001 .

I also refer to presentations made by the team members of companies , who put up slides on Root cause analysis . I wish to discuss about the fineness of the root cause analysis . 

The subject matter ingredient in any process is controlling variation . A product is said to be of good quality when it is able adhere to less variation between various units produced . To assure that the same is adhered to , the product has technical specifications with a tolerance bandwidth within a limit , that the produced product must fall under . 

Many Quality managers and supervisors  tend to focus more on having their product fall in between the tolerance limits and keep thinking that they are manufacturing a good product . Seldom does a QC team ensure statistical analysis of the batch production . I have observed in a few companies where the line staff think of entering the sample analysis in the X bar R chart as a mundane routine and boring exercise . 

Infact , many of the QC managers are not even aware of the causes of variation , one due to special causes and one due common cause . Many of the Special cause variations , are given enormous amounts of focus leading to lesser focus on common cause variation . 

While I solicit readers to come up with more details related to these , I will continue on the same in the next edition . 

Regards

KJ

Happy New Year 2018 ! We are back ...

Dear Friends , the blog is back after a hiatus . I apologise for the huge gap in postings due to really a strenuous time and work load in 2017 . It is my endeavor to continue actively in the blog for 2018 and beyond . On behalf of the Kaizen Club of Zambia , The Kaizen institute of Zambia and JICA We wish all our readers a Very happy and prosperous New year 2018 .