A study on construction of a kaizen case-base and its utilisation: a case of visual management in fabrication and assembly shop-floors |
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| Authors: | Koichi Murata Hiroshi Katayama |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Graduate School of Creative Science &2. Engineering, Waseda University , 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, 169-0072, Japan k-murata@kata.mgmt.waseda.ac.jp;4. Engineering, Waseda University , 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, 169-0072, Japan |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, focusing on visual management (VM) as one of the kaizen technologies, a procedure for its new case development is discussed. This procedure consists of two portions. The first portion is construction of kaizen case-base, namely: (1) correction and analysis of kaizen cases; (2) establishment of drivers and instances of investigated kaizen case; and (3) analysis of proximity relationship among kaizen cases. The second portion is utilisation of kaizen case-base, namely: (4) selection of kaizen case from kaizen case-base; (5) consideration of the other related kaizen cases; and (6) new kaizen case design. A case study is performed to assure the relevance of the proposed procedure by focusing on ‘dispatching board’, a typical VM technology. Through collaboration with a factory eager to implement VM, the proposed procedure is qualified by experts as a useful method for kaizen knowledge transfer. |
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| Keywords: | kaizen technology visual management (VM) dispatching board quantification theory category III analytic hierarchy process (AHP) management technology transfer case-base small and medium enterprise (SME) |
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