Keizen In Coca Cola
Keizen Theory
Keizen
means improvement continous improvement involving everyone in the organization
from top management, to manager then supervisor and to workers .
In
japan the concept keizen is so deeply engrained in the means of both managers
and workers that they often do not even realize the are thinking kaizen as a
customer - driven strategy for improvement .
From
such perspective , keizen is not only and approach to manufacturing
competitiveness but also everybody’s business because it premise is based
concept that every person as interst in improvement .
Keizen in the three pillars
the
three pillars of kaizen summarized as follows :
1. Housekeeping
2. Waste eliminations
3. Standardization
To
be ensured success on activities on those trhee pillars factors have also to be
taken account
√
visual management
√
the role of the supervisior
√
The importance of training and creating
learning organization
Another
key aspect of kaizen is that it is an on-going, never-ending improvement process.
It is not difficult introduce something into an organization the difficult part
is who to keep it going and maintain the memontum once it has been introduced .
many companies have tired to introduce such projects as quality circle ,
reengineering and lern production . while some of them have been succesfull .
5S Theory :
5S
is the name of workplace organization method that use a list of five Japanese
word all staring with collector . the list descrips to organize a word space for efficiency and effectiveness by identifying
and storing the item news, maintaining positive impression of customers, increase efficiency an organization . not
only while employees feel better about where they work, the effect continous
improvement can lead to less waste, better quality and faster load times . any of which while make your organization
more provitable and competitive in the market place .
5S
consist of these five step :
1. Short through and short out .
2. Standardize and and share information .
3. Set in order .
4. suchtain the improvements made .
5. shine at in inspect through cleaning .
·
Short – ( seiri
)
- Separating the wanted and unwanted .
- Junk and waste .
- Repairable .
- Wanted item .
- No use and repair .
- Discard to next step .
The
first S focuses eliminating annecessry items from the work place .
An
effective visual method to indentify
these unnceeded items to
Called
red tagging a red tag is placed on all item not required to complete their job
this items are then moved to central holding area . this process is for
evaluation of the red tag items.
Occasionally
used items are moved to a more organized storage location outside of the work
are while unneeded items are discarded . Sorting is an excellent way to free up
valuable floor space and eliminate such things as broken tools, obsolete jigs
and fix futures, scrap and excess raw material .
Set In Order ( Seiton)
Is
the second of the 5S and focuses on efficient and effective storage methods .
Strategies for effective Set In Order are ;
-
Painting Floors,
-
Outlining work areas
and location.
-
Shadow Boards
and
-
Modular shelving
and
-
Cabinets for
needed items such as trash cans, brooms, mop and buckets .
Shine ( Seiso )
Once
you have elimate the cultter and junk that has been clogging work areas and
identified and located the necessary items, the next step is to throughhly
clean the work area . daily follow-up cleaning is necessary in order to sustain
this improvement . workers take pride in a clean and clutter-free work area and
the shine step will help create ownership in the equipment and facility
location such as air, oil and coolant leaks, repeat contamination and
vibration, broken, fatigue, breakage, and misalignment . these changes, if left unattended, cloud lead
to equipment failure and loss of
production, both add up to impact the company’s buttom line.
Standardize ( Seiketsu )
Once
the first three 5S’s have been implemented, should concentrate on standardizing
best practice in your work area. Allow employees to participate in the
development of such standards. They are a valuable but often overlooked source
of information regarding the work .
Sustain ( Shitsuke )
This
is by far the most difficult S to implement and achieve. Human nature is to
resist change and more than a few organizations have found themselves with a
dirty clutterd shop a few months following their attempt to implement 5S . The
tendency is to return to the status quo and the comfort zone of the “old way”
of doing things . Sustain focuses on defining a new status quo and standard of work
place organization .
FIVE “S”
This
5S system describes how to fill the organization work gap to improve the
efficiency and the effectiveness by identifying and storing the items used.
Maintaining the areas and items, and sustain according to the new order .
5S
consist of these five steps :
-
SEIRI : Short
Through and short out .
-
SEITON :
Standardize and share information .
-
SEISO : Set In
Order .
-
SEIKETSUS :
Sustain the improvements made .
-
SHITSUKES :
Shine and inspect through cleaning .
Accordingly,
coca cola Sri Langka uses this 5S system for few moths and it started with the big cleaning
day, it increased morale of the employees and customers where it can be found
through the all behaviors of the company .
