"Just Say Jishuken"
Industry Week
October 2007, p. 16
Another “lean term” is becoming better known recently in the U.S. According to a Toyota website, “jishuken” means “management-driven kaizen activity where management members identify areas in need of continuous improvement and spread information through the organization to stimulate kaizen activity.’ This enables managers to be more fully involved in kaizen activity and to create a culture of observing problems on the shop floor.
The 7 steps for jishuken are:
- Select an area that needs improvement
- Develop a team, with a lead person and personnel from various departments
- Assign each team member a plant function to monitor
- Team members systematically ask questions about their assigned areas
- Team leader tracks any issues on a jishuken worksheet that identifies what the problem is, what countermeasures should be taken, who is responsible for making the changes, and the date
- Team leader meets with the operators to discuss their findings and the changes implemented
- Results are posted, status of changes in tracked, and follow up is done through the supervisor and the checklist
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