What is Kaizen/ Operational Excellence
ONSITE Assessment? It is an systematic opportunity assessment conducted to identify gap and opportunities in the operations that finally leads to the design of an improvement roadmap with calculations of potential benefits (monitory & non monetary)
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Why Kaizen/ Operational Excellence On Site assessment ? No journey starts without current state analysis and a roadmap for future improvements – we have to define What needs to be improved? How? by Whom? Where? By When? and the Measures?
Thus before starting on any improvement program, it is important and imperative that the following is executed: Assessment - identify current state & plan a desirable future state Preparing a road map to implement improvements so as the reach the planned future state
We use a special assessment model as below
Data Sources :
This is an excel based audit Tool that is used! Red indicates weak areas, Green is strong, White is not applicable Yellow just ok!
-One to one meetings - Group meetings - Shop floor observations - Data analysis - From other sources as need
A overall company/ unit score is automatic ally generated
Plus various data points are analyzed
Fuel Consumption
Finally all this helps in Gaps being Identified… This is an example…
For Example.. we may find gaps like… Forecasting based push planning is the weakness Total Capacity Calculation is low Lack of Process Standardization Push Production is used, no customer pull Data conversion into Information is weak No Flow in production Imbalance utilization of Machine Rejection / Rework is high Transparency of Information / Communication is poor Departments are working in silos Documentation is poor
Finally an Kaizen/ Lean/ OE Road Map Emerges …. This is an example…
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