Kaizen Sketchbook: Description and Table of Contents

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Kaizen merges work and process improvement without increasing chaos because diverse teams of contributors, including direct operators, follow a strict discipline to design a precise choreography of people, equipment, materials and information flow that is devoid of waste. The improved flow achieves delightful success and is sustained through consistent leadership and visual controls.

The Kaizen Sketchbook explains and illustrates Kaizen in hundreds of pages of color illustrations, charts, demonstrations and step-by-step examples. It is a walking slide show of best practices and idea catalysts. Including an extensive glossary, index and very selective timeline, this portable guide will inspire, instruct, and support consistent application of Plan, Do, Check and Act Kaizen.

The author, Marypat Cooper, has compiled over 20 years of process improvement experience into the Kaizen Sketchbook, including her notes from multiple sessions with Dr. W. Edwards Deming as well as over 14 years under instruction by students of Taiichi Ohno. She has combined the technical features of kaizen with the social aspects, including numerous office applications together with production floor examples to give the reader timeless value.

The illustrated glossary has over 250 Kaizen related terms. Step-by-step instructions for prioritizing issues, taking time study and resolving team conflict are organized, accessible and portable. Value Stream Maps and Strategy Deployment are extensively explained and fully drawn in color.

Table of Contents
Forward by Gary Brooks, CEO of Esselte	7
Introduction by Jim Cutler, President of Moffitt Associates	11
How to PLAN Kaizen
Kaizen Topic Selection	23
Affinity Process with Inter-Relationship Diagraph	28
Value Stream Analysis	33
Simple Value Stream Map Icons	37
Strategy Deployment	53
Communicate the Kaizen Topic Selection	65
Kaizen Team Selection	59
Team Roles and Responsibilities	67
Ground Rules	74
Essential Forms and Supply Checklists	77
How to DO Kaizen
Kickoff	86
Observe Safety	87
Observe the 5 S	85
Direct Observation of Work through Space	103
Direct Observation of Work in Terms of Time (Construction of Standard Work Forms)	113
Useful Data and Sigma Tools	133
Find the Best Idea	145
Idea Catalysts	159
Implement the Best Idea	166
Specific Examples of Kaizen	169
To Build a "House Without Waste"	171
Kaizen for a Better Work Area Flow	172
Office Kaizen	178
Setup Reduction Kaizen	186
Kaizen for Better Internal Material Flow	192
How to CHECK Kaizen
How the Staff Checks on the Kaizen Team: the Daily Leaders' Meeting	198
How the Team Leader Checks Kaizen Progress Hourly	201
How a Facilitator Checks and Intervenes as Needed	203
From Plan to Do to Check to ACT!	213
The Final Presentation	217
How to ACT Kaizen
Regular and Productive Attention to Standard Work	219
On Leadership	228
Perspectives
A Very Selective Timeline	233
Lean Enterprise Assessment	237
Recommended Reading	241
Sample Curricula for Standard Training Modules	243
Glossary	245
Index	281