Stop pretending to know it all if you want to be a great manufacturing leader, and AI tools could help you do that. Those were a few of the insights from an experts panel discussion on the proper uses ...

Kaizen is generally accepted to mean “continuous improvement”. Nowhere is it more applicable than the area of lean manufacturing. In this presentation learn how to leverage your existing data, as well ...

IBM Rational's MCIF offers a twist on Kaizen, a lean manufacturing mainstay and the process of "continuous improvement" practiced by Toyota for 50 years I was just about to write an essay on Kaizen in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. When companies decide that their own internal warehousing capabilities are lacking, ...

Kaizen focuses on continuous, incremental improvements by involving all employees. The philosophy, pioneered by W. Edwards Deming in Japan, enhances productivity and efficiency. Kaizen empowers ...

Unfortunately there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of kaizen, viewing it only as small incremental improvements. Therefore a new term was introduced into the lean vocabulary: kaikaku.

People often call me a leader of kaizen as I travel the world to promote its concept during university breaks. Kaizen, which means a small change or an improvement of work, is a post-World War II ...

The tech industry is often defined as a collection of people who "move fast and break things". It's not always the best business model. The Kaizen process seeks incremental but continuous improvement ...