Kanzen Institute Asia Pacific

#2020

Wishing U all Lots of love, happiness & good health. Happy Makar Sankranthi. Happy Pongal.

We want to take this opportunity and thank you for all your support and love to Kanzen Institute.

It’s been the best year for Kanzen Institute till date as we have had the privilege to witness number of people transforming their businesses.

At the end of the day, our customers are the single most important part of everything we do we are truly grateful for you.

Wishing you an amazing 2020!

May you be blessed with love, abundance and happiness!

A new year and decade begins... we have observed myriad happenings over the past 10 years, participated in many of them, involved directly in more than a hundred organization transformations and changed the minds and lives of tens of thousands of individuals through these interventions. One thing holds true and will remain our guiding principle as we embark on the next decade …..

"If we do things the same way we will get the same result,
To get a different result...… we need to do things differently"

As the world moves forward, we must keep in step. At no time is the spirit of kaizen more relevant than now. Recession is an opportunity for growth; population pressure and congestion throws up a challenge to innovate in how we live our lives; pollution and threat (reality?) of climate change threat forces us to be proactive and change our ways ....in every aspect be it life at home with family or in the workspace we need to remain on the path of Continual Improvement.

Wishing all our partners, clients, well wishers and every human being out there a very happy new year and for the times to come.

Merry Christmas & Happy New year

Excellence is a Continuous Process and not an accident.
...Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam

Is Lean possible in an automated plant ?

There ls a lot of scepticism in implementing lean in process industries where manual intervention is a bare minimum.
This paper seeks to dispel such doubts through practical case examples of lean based process improvement undertaken in bulk drug manufacturing. It touches upon how the lean paradigm can be used in such process industries to understand the current state and identify potential areas for improvement. It also details actual improvement projects to explain the application of the core Lean concept of waste elimination. In Lean, waste is defined through the 3Ms.
This experience of practical implementation is used to share some of the dffirences in how lean is applied in process industry as compared to discrete manufacturing. However, it would be premature to draw specific conclusions from this paper as it is based on a small sample of bulk drug manufacturing units.
Read more @
http://kiap.in/wp-content/uploads/Article-Cons-Ahead-Ganesh.pdf

How to build a World class Organization?

To know this first the objective of WCO has to be known. The main objective of the World Class Organization (WCO) is integrated enhancement of production and logistics processes.

In the past, such processes have been measured using primarily 'hard' metrics that were based largely on the reporting system. The presentation of these metrics is essentially function oriented. This makes a fully integrated consideration (from supplier to customer) very difficult.

WCO is about further enhancing the quality of processes and procedures through the systematic application of principles. This will improve metrics on one hand and achieve better process orientation on the other.

In addition to metrics, it seems advisable to undertake an assessment of the maturity of your processes. This assessment should be based on the principles of the WCO. Experience has shown that it is not by specifying metrics that processes are fundamentally and sustainably improved, but rather that the focus has to be on developing the principles. The improvement of the metrics will then follow as a result of improving the process quality.

Read more in this case-let
http://kiap.in/success_stories/fortune-500-company-wants-to-build-continual-improvement-culture/

Do you know how Jidoka can be applied to HR (Interview Process).

Dr.G explains it along with his students.
Dr.G is the Director of Kanzen Institute and Dean of We-School, Mumbai.

Jidoka Application in Human Resource (GDPI) by Dr.G Dr.G, Director of KIAP explains the concept of Jidoka (Automation) and how it can be applied in Human Resource. He made a role play along with his students.

Have You ever heard about "The Kanzen Journey"?




KANZEN (完全) is a journey searching for “PERFECTION” or “COMPLETENESS” – the fifth and final step laid down by Womack and Jones in their seminal book “Lean Thinking”.

Achieving operational excellence becomes a reality as the organization aims for perfection which is a dynamic state, the milestone shifts further away every time you think you are about to reach it.

The KANZEN journey is typically marked by four main phases and each having its own milestone and measures.

1. Diagnostic Phase :
The first step is to assess the current state vis a vis the organization goals and identify the gaps to be bridged across the gamut of operations.

2. Improvement Phase :
Identified constraints and bottlenecks are eliminated or minimized through radical process improvements done in a relatively short span of time.

3.Standardization Phase :
Most gains and improvements are short lived as the operational processes are not robust enough to keep them going. During this phase, deeper and longer gestation concepts such as 5 S, elements to Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) etc are systematically percolated through the organization allowing sufficient time for them to seep into the DNA of every person.

4.Sustenance Phase :
To Quote Tennyson from his poem The Brook “men may come and men may go but I go on forever”. Likewise the role of the consultant ends with putting in place and handing over a self sustaining framework so that organization is firmly set on the path of Continual Improvement.

WHY STANDARDIZATION IS IMPORTANT THAN IMPROVEMENT?

One of today’s best-known management paradigm is the Toyota Production System (TPS) – which has been suitably adapted and referred to as LEAN by western world. The spirit of TPS is rooted in the Japanese Zen philosophy and exemplified by Kaizen – a change to next elevated state.

‘CHANGE’ – the reality of impermanence and transformation rules the world always. Change to the next elevated state is IMPROVEMENT.

This is the crucial step in path and stepping stone towards KANZEN (Perfection) . IMPROVING continually (often and periodically) is required to grow towards perfection.

Between every improvement effort, the organization should STANDARDIZE to consolidate the gains of improvement and progress (move ahead) towards PERFECTION. If the standardization is not implemented properly the improvement wheel falls down to the lower stage.
Check sheets & Periodic assessment helps in maintaining the standards.