For some people process continuous improvement are familiar term in their daily life conversation. We can easily find at manufacturing conversation and around it. Why? Because process continuous improvement is something they must be executed to be able to compete with their competitor. Process continuous improvement is kaizen in other word. But you know why? Mostly people don't know these term or may be know but don't understand.

What Is Process continuous improvement or kaizen? Process continuous improvement or kaizen is a continuous activity to increase from current standard condition to reach better condition. Why should we have to reach better condition? Because we must always be able to give the best service or product to our customer? If we didn't give the best service or product to our customer, whereas our rival did the Process continuous improvement hence for certain time we will lose our customer significantly. Losing of customer is a death for a business unit. That's why Process continuous improvement or kaizen is the final price which must be choose so we can always gives the best for our customer

I read many good books about kaizen. Then I tell you ones of good books are "kaizen" by Masaaki Imai. Read the book then you will find some interesting data for example. In Japan the term of kaizen or process continuous improvement is a common word. You will find those word easily at newspaper, television even governmental functionary conversation. It is like kaizen or process continuous improvements are blood for them. On the contrary in European country nor American in the beginning did not assume kaizen or process continuous improvements are the important thing to do. They definitely like innovation, big innovation as a basis of change. Kaizen or process continuous improvement just a small step to better condition which difficult to see. Lately, in order to faces tough competition they and their Japan principal regularly try to implement kaizen at the shop floor. What a wise decision isn't it?

I have explained above that kaizen or Process Continuous Improvement is every effort to enhance from current condition to better condition. The keyword here is current condition or we can say standard condition. Standard are sets of rule to control process activity including machine, material, tool, environment and man itself. Those standard items are needs to get process safely, efficient with good quality consistently. So obviously we need standard first before doing kaizen or process continuous improvement. What if there is no standard of current process? Simply, just find good condition at the process and make it as standard. So we can start from that point.

Why we should do standardization before doing kaizen or process continuous improvement? It is a simple. We can not measure the kaizen or process continuous improvement achievement whether success or not. For example. I have standardized that we need sixth movement to cleaning product properly. So if we have 100 products that we should do 600 movements. So if we can reduce man movement from 6 movements per product become 4 movements per product without reduce in quality then we have succeeded do kaizen or process continuous improvement of man movements. But if we did not specify standard how many man movements to clean the product then we don't know whether 4 man movements are succeeded or not.

In the next article. I would explain tools for doing kaizen or process continuous improvement. If there is some question. Just ask. Happy kaizen.

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