Kaizen Ranking

Kaizen Ranking is a workshop and a tool designed to help you prioritize potential projects based on a set of seven established criteria:

1. Schedule Performance
2. Scrap, Rework, or Repair Cost
3. Impact on Customer Satisfaction
4. Likelihood to Complete in 1 Year
5. Estimated Cost-Benefit of the Project
6. Impact on Process Throughput
7. Impact on Operator Satisfaction

The goal is to identify those vital few Kaizens, which, when completed, will lead to the best results in the time period being planned for.

Learning Objectives:

As a result of completing the Kaizen Ranking workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Brainstorm Kaizen ideas for their Value Streams by Value Stream Loop
2. Evaluate each Kaizen idea vs the 7 criteria
3. Rank order the Kaizen ideas from highest to lowest total score based on the 7 criteria
4. Select those vital few projects based on their Kaizen ranking
5. e)  Plan to implement those vital few Kaizens in their Value Streams over the next planning period (90-days)

Who Should Attend: 

1. Value Stream Leaders
2. Value Stream Teams
3. Kaizen Event Leaders
4. Kaizen Teams
5. Plant Managers
6. Department Managers & Supervisors
7. Engineers, Mechanics, and Operators

Duration: 1 day

JCM Work Designs/The Lean Sigma Team can design and conduct this workshop to meet your specific needs.  Please contact us for a formal proposal.