Importance of Kaizen and Its Implementation in Design and Manufacturing System

Abstract

The objective of Design and Manufacturing companies is to increase customer satisfaction, productivity with good quality of products. At present many of the design and manufacturing companies are facing quality rejection, lead time issue and inability to meet the customer expectations. By implementing the lean manufacturing system, many problems can be solved by involving employees on the shop floor in Kaizen activities. One of the basic rules of Kaizen is “The continuous incremental improvement of an activity to create more value with less waste giving quantifiable and sustainable benefit”. The main objective of this paper is to provide background of Kaizen implementation in design and manufacturing areas.