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AMC Kaizen Events

Power For Your Lean Transformation

enterprise Kaizen Events are an energizing and effective way to jump-start your factory floor improvements. AMC's Kaizen Event methodology is proven and ready to help you and your factory. If your factory is not yet prepared to benefit from this powerful tool we can get you ready in a short time.

For those factories that are already on their way with their lean journey we can initiate a series of Kaizen events that focus on each of the core kaizen modules.

Targeted and Concentrated Lean Improvement

AMC's Kaizen Event Training and Kaizen Event Facilitation provides your factory with methodology to use everyday to: target
  • overcome problems
  • improve quality
  • more quickly change your line set-ups
  • perform line balancing to achieve better and quicker flow

Empowerment

boundarie Kaizen empowers your employees with a tremendously effective methodology to achieve continuous improvement. AMC provides complete and low cost world-class Kaizen training for your teams. In a short while they are able to achieve verifiable and meaningful productivity results. We train in your local language, and include all necessary levels of staff in our training.

Differentiate Your Company's Commitment to Improvement

differentiate Continuous improvement is at the heart of a successful lean enterprise. Globalization means your customers can go anywhere in the world to source their products. Continuous improvement is at the very heart of the lean journey and kaizen is the heart of continuous improvement. It is how increasingly you will need to redefine yourself in the age of globalization.

Kaizen Modules

AMC Offers 14 Modules of Kaizen Events

  • 1 Kaizen Pre-Training where you master the elements of what makes for a successful kaizen event
  • 13 Kaizen Events, each with a particular focus of the kaizen and intended results

Kaizen Pre-Training

We prepare you for how to conduct a successful kaizen at your factory.
  • Kaizen and your organizational transformation
  • Dealing with resistance to change
  • Review Kaizen 3 phases
  • Planning for a successful kaizen at your factory
  • Steering Team role
  • Kaizen Team members
  • Conducting the kaizen event
  • Metrics (how to measure and what to measure)
  • Translating improvements into financial terms
  • Presenting your results
  • The Kaizen "magic moment" and your people

Value Stream Mapping Kaizen

AMC teaches you how to perform a VSM Kaizen.
  • Review of PQ Analysis
  • 7 Step Plan
  • Current State and Future State Maps
  • Project listing with priorities
  • Metrics including financial impacts

Cell Design / Standard Work Kaizen

  • Conduct machine-human work separation analysis
  • Create Standard Work sheets
  • Guidelines for OPF use

Line Balancing Kaizen

Principles of flow creation.
  • Task Timing
  • Comparative Measurement and Analysis

Visual Tools Kaizen

  • Use of VM Development Chart
  • Understanding of VM System

Metrics Kaizen

  • Primary focus on factory metrics, departmental KPI
  • Rolling metrics down to the cell level

Quick Change-over (SMED) Machine-Human Kaizen

  • 7 Step process, and process mapping
  • Change-over study
  • Use of Improvement Chart
  • Internal vs. External Activities

Quick Change-over (SMED) Pit-Stop Kaizen

  • Similarities to machine-human Kaizen
  • Team approach to multiple machine changeover
  • Similar technique is appropriate to garment and footwear factories

5S Kaizen

Pre-audit Checklist
Systematic approach to create order and flow
  • S-1 Sort (and Red tag auction)
  • S-2 Set-in Order (specify location and quantity)
  • S-3 Shine and Sweep (inspection through cleaning)
  • S-4 Standards (new standards)
  • S-5 Sustain (form new habits, audits, graphs, and role of management participation)

Pull Production & Kanban Kaizen

  • 4-step Process to create flow
  • Pull Rules
  • Kanban approach
  • Flow & Supermarket/Kanban integration
  • Flow leveling

Quality Problem Solving Kaizen

  • Data approach
  • Five Why's
  • CEDAC
  • 8D approach to problem solving

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

  • Pillars of TPM
  • Autonomous Maintenance
  • Types of Machine Losses
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

Mistake Proofing

  • Process Variables
  • Source Inspection
  • Mistake Proofing Development
  • Levels of Mistake Proofing
For information on how you can quickly be performing your own Kaizen Events in your factory, please contact us for further information.