Continuous Improvement on Tata Steel
AO8 – Evaluate why it is important for an organisation to strive for continuous improvement across its operation “Continuous Improvement is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakthrough" improvement all at once.[1] Delivery (customer valued) processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility.” * {Sourced - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_Improvement_Process - 10/01/12}
Continuous Improvement / “Kaizen Japanese for "improvement", or "change for the better" refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, game development, and business management created in Japan after World War II, influenced partly by American business and quality management teachers who visited the country”, Personally I find this fact rather fascinating as it is a well-known fact that Japanese companies are the leaders in company efficiency. Also Toyota Production System are well known for operating the Kaizen strategy “where all line personnel are expected to stop their moving production line in case of any abnormality and, along with their supervisor, suggest an improvement to resolve the abnormality which may initiate a kaizen.” * {Sourced - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen - 21/01/12}
To succeed in CI you must have a range of beneficial information about the changeable environment so you can evaluate the outcome and how you got there, to be able to attain the people you need to discuss what needs to be changed, have the ideas and achieve them, A thorough understanding of the changes even if they are not to your liking and a systematic way to measure the progress and outcomes. * {Sourced - http://www.toolpack.com/continuous-improvement.html - 10/01/12}
There are many tools you can use for continuous improvement such as Six Sigma, Lean, Total
Continuous Improvement / “Kaizen Japanese for "improvement", or "change for the better" refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, game development, and business management created in Japan after World War II, influenced partly by American business and quality management teachers who visited the country”, Personally I find this fact rather fascinating as it is a well-known fact that Japanese companies are the leaders in company efficiency. Also Toyota Production System are well known for operating the Kaizen strategy “where all line personnel are expected to stop their moving production line in case of any abnormality and, along with their supervisor, suggest an improvement to resolve the abnormality which may initiate a kaizen.” * {Sourced - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen - 21/01/12}
To succeed in CI you must have a range of beneficial information about the changeable environment so you can evaluate the outcome and how you got there, to be able to attain the people you need to discuss what needs to be changed, have the ideas and achieve them, A thorough understanding of the changes even if they are not to your liking and a systematic way to measure the progress and outcomes. * {Sourced - http://www.toolpack.com/continuous-improvement.html - 10/01/12}
There are many tools you can use for continuous improvement such as Six Sigma, Lean, Total