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Originated in America from ford (CANDO) -improvements) and strongly propagated by Henry Ford in his book – Today & tomorrow in 1926. The excepts from his recommendations are as below: [...]
Sorting – 1S activity General Sorting unwanted items is the first activity in 5S. Organization shall clearly define the meaning of UNWANTED items. It includes; a) Items which are not [...]
Step 1 - Leadership Commitment for 5S Implementation 5S is a journey without destination. It requires long term commitment from top management. Leaders should lead by example. Commitment can be [...]
Many traditional organizations operating in old fashioned ways continue to emphasize silo mentality in optimizing costs. They hardly see the impact of one decision affecting others. For example, if we [...]
For organizations to prosper, constant attention must be paid to quality control. This has become a well-known fact. The basic idea of quality control has been spread to all, but [...]
Critical to Quality (CTQ) Every product that are launched in the market have characteristics that describe their performance relative to end user, the customer’s expectations and requirements. Some [...]
More than 95% of the organisations give less importance for managing their human assets. This is no surprise if we come to know that nearly 100 years back, Henry [...]
Seven Steps academy is offering Lean Six Sigma certification training on behalf of American Society of Quality – ASQ South Asia. American Society for Quality (ASQ) is a worldwide globally [...]
ABC company is a home interior products manufacturing company located in Bangalore Company produces for around 40 clients) in a month Types of furniture manufactured are wardrobes, kitchen cabinets, TV [...]
Many organisations work towards improvement in a big way with little success and rather with increased frustration. Before even embarking on the Journey of excellence, there is need to evaluate [...]
Every organisation strives to be best in improving productivity, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Morale and Safety (PQCDMS) at work place. Work place is also called as Gemba or the spot of [...]
The requirement of world is changing at a faster pace than what we can imagine. Competition is so fierce in every field. Life cycle of products is reducing at rapid [...]
There used to be a time when certain jobs are considered as dream jobs and highly respected such as Telecom new connections and ticketing clerk in a reservation counter, teller [...]
In the rising complexities of globalized business, if you are struggling to improve business operations and seeking a long haul business success, your business has left out with no option [...]
Wherever materials/items are stored & consumed, many times we either face stock out situation or excess inventory. Stock out situation can lead to huge production loss and excess inventory may [...]
In Deming’s 14 principles, one of the key principle which he has recommended strongly is to end the practice of awarding business on price alone. This is one of the [...]
Reliability Engineer is a professional who has sound knowledge and understanding of principles of performance, evaluation and prediction to improve product and systems safety, reliability and maintainability. There are various [...]
“If you can do 5S, you can do anything. The company that can do well with the 5S’s can also do well with all the other practices. The company that [...]