Manufacturers

Lean - Kaizen Blitz

Involve Your Workforce in the Pursuit of Eliminating Wastes!

What is Kaizen Blitz?

A Kaizen Blitz is an intensive and focused approach to Process Improvement.  Kaizen means "continuous improvement" and Blitz means "lightening fast".  During the Kaizen Blitz event, participants use Lean techniques, team empowerment, brainstorming and problem solving to rapidly make improvements to a specific area or process. The Kaizen event provides immediate tangible results and motivation for ongoing continuous improvements.

This continuous improvement methodology combines lean manufacturing tools such as the 5S's of Workplace Organization and Standardization, Cells, Pull/Kanban, Setup Reduction and Line Balancing.  Each tool incorporates team empowerment, brainstorming and problem solving to rapidly make improvements to a specific product or portions of your processes.

Kaizen Blitz is an intense and focused improvement event where participants use Lean techniques, team empowerment, brainstorming and problem solving to rapidly make improvements to a specific area or process. The Kaizen event will provide your company with immediate tangible results and motivation for ongoing continuous improvements.

Florida MEP's staff quickly identified half a dozen areas where changes could be made to eliminate steps and improve productivity and quality after a kaizen blitz was conducted, which highlighted small improvements. Read the success story.

Why Do A Kaizen Blitz?

The Kaizen Event methodology has been used extensively for improving the organization of work in factories and actual methods used to manufacture products.  The results are real-time with implementation occurring within one week.  Not only will you obtain immediate improvements to your process, you will also develop a list of other improvement opportunities that your staff can investigate and implement after the Kaizen Event.  The Kaizen Event will provide your company with immediate tangible results and motivation or ongoing continuous improvement within your company.

Benefits

• Immediate results
• Involvement of the workforce
• Visual, action orientation
• Can use ongoing, once learned concepts
• Fosters communications
• Creative vs. capital investments
• People think from "business" perspective
• Implementation smooth due to TEAM concept

Kaizen Blitz is part of an integrated suite of tools and services developed specifically for manufacturers.