Laboratory

We will discuss planning the event in alignment with strategic goals and objectives of the organization. Organization of the Kaizen event includes planning, scheduling and sending invites in advance in order to accommodate a variety of schedules. The event invite may include: leadership, managers, experts and knowledgable staff. There is 3 factors of importance to

Planning the event includes development of a charter. This charter is important because it defines the agreement between the management and the team. The charter should be completed before or on the first day the team interacts. Consider your Kaizen Event and based on the issues in your laboratory, how would you complete the contract?

Lean means anything that does not add value is waste, so in this module we will review tools that will assist teams identify and eliminate non value add activities (wasteful activities that go unreimbursed). The tools include Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA), Six Sigma: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and control and the A3 or scientific

Lean means anything that does not add value is waste, so in this module we will review tools that will assist teams identify and eliminate non value add activities (wasteful activities that go unreimbursed). The tools include Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA), Six Sigma: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and control and the A3 or scientific

We will utilize methods and tools in our Kaizen event. In this lecture we discuss brainstorming tools such as the following: Suppliers, Inputs, Outputs and Customers (SIPOC) Fishbone diagram Customer interview Survey Spaghetti diagram Process flow charts Value stream maps It’s important to analyze and demonstrate the problem so choose a few tools for your