Kaizen refers to continuous improvement in Japanese. It was first adopted in the West by Japanese car manufacturers in the 1980s. Kaizen focuses on small, incremental improvements from within organizations to increase productivity, quality, safety and customer satisfaction while reducing costs and waste. Some benefits of Kaizen include improved employee morale, lower turnover, and involving all employees in the improvement process through suggestions.

1. WHAT IS KAIZEN
In simple terms Kaizen is Japanese for
‘a change for better’, which results in
‘continuous improvement’. Kaizen
ideology can be traced back to the 1980’s;
Kaizen was first adopted in the West with
the influx of Japanese car manufacturers
brought a wave of new thinking.

2. LOGIC OF KAIZEN
Kaizen logics was first appear in written text
with Masaaki Imai’s book ‘KAIZEN - The Key
To Japan’s Competitive Success’ (1996) this
book showed that what the fundamental
Kaizen logic is.
Kaizen uses the Japanese logic of bringing
improvements internally from within the
workplace

3. KAIZEN BENEFITS
• These continual small improvements add up to major
benefits. They result in improved productivity,
improved quality, better safety, faster delivery, lower
costs, and greater customer satisfaction.
• On top of these benefits to the company, employees
working in Kaizen-based companies generally find
work to be easier and more enjoyable - resulting in
higher employee moral and job satisfaction, and
lower turn-over.

4. KAIZEN BENEFITS
• Kaizen Reduces Waste in areas such
as employee skills, waiting times,
transportation, worker motion, over
production, excess inventory, quality
and in processes.

5. KAIZEN BENEFITS
• Kaizen Improves -
product quality, use of capital,
production capacity, communications,
Space utilization and employee retention.

6. KAIZEN BENEFITS
• Kaizen Provides immediate results. Instead of
focusing on large scale improvements, which
involve capital intensive, Kaizen focuses on
creative investments that continually solve large
numbers of small problems.

7. KAIZEN BENEFITS
•Kaizen will also improve the capital
projects process, but the real power of
Kaizen is in the on-going process of
continually making small improvements
that improve processes and reduce
waste.

8. KAIZEN BENEFITS
• By involving employees they start
looking about change at their
environment to bring up results in
there work area. And improved
morale as employee begin to find
work more enjoyable and easier .

9. KAIZEN BENEFITS
• Kaizen involves every employee in process of
change - mostly in small, incremental changes. It
focuses on identifying problems at their own
source, solving them at their own source, and
changing standards to ensure the problem stays
solved forever.
• It's not unusual for Kaizen to result in 25 to 30
suggestions per employee, every year, and to
have over 90% of those implemented.

10. KAIZEN BENEFITS
• For example, Toyota is well-known as
one of the leaders in using Kaizen. In
1999 at one U.S. plant, 7,000 Toyota
employees submitted over 75,000
suggestions, of which 99% were
implemented.

11. Kaizen evaluation
(General guidelines)
Type of Kaizen Marks awarded.
• Innovative Kaizen > 80
• Self initiated 50 to 70
improvements with team
efforts
• Accepting others ideas
for improvements. 40 to 60
• Giving suggestions to
others and getting them
implemented 30 to 50