History of Improvement

From Cottage
g to Kaizen

Early industry
Date

Event

Comment

1700

Cottage industry
Cottageindustry

Skilledworkers,flexiblesystems,low
Skilled
workers flexible systems low
productivity.Workersimprovework.

1700s

Massproductioninventions

SpinningJenny,CottonGin,Interchangeable
musket
k t parts
t

1800s

Industrialrevolution

Unskilledworkers,inflexiblesystems,
manufacturingoutputdoublesevery20years
UKmanufacturingleadstheWorld

1911

FredrickTaylorscientific
workstudy

Managementstudyworktoimproveit

Evolving improvement methods

Date

Event

Comment

1914

Model T Ford introduced

ModelTFordintroduced

15m carsproduced
cars produced Any
Anycolouryoulikeso
colour you like so
longasitisblack

1931

Shewhartintroduces
statisticalcontrolcharts
t ti ti l
t l h t

Allowsstudyofvariabilityinprocesses

1947

TaiichiOhnomovesto
Toyota

StartofToyotaProductionSystemTPS

1952

DemingintroducesPlan, Do, Structuredapproachtomanagement,

Check,Act
underpinsTotalQualityManagement

Refined improvement methods

Event

Comment

1978

Kaizen was born

Kaizenwasborn

Taiichi Ohno publishes TPS

TaiichiOhnopublishesTPS

1987

MotoroladevelopSixSigma Structuredapproachtoproblemsolvingusing
methodology
DMAICmethod

1998

Worldclassmanufacturing
terminologyused

GEsaves$10bn usingsixsigma,TPSis
establishedasasetoftools

2008

Toyota
y
takesoverfromGM
aslargestcarmanufacturer
intheworld

Themostconsistent carmanufacturerinprofit
p
andgrowthoverlast30years

TPM

TQM

RIGHT FIRST TIME

EV
VERY TIME QUALITY
Y

SMED

QUIC
CK TOOL CHANGES T
TO
INCR
REASE M/C CAPACIT
TY

WORK FLOW
W

WORLD CLASS
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
PROBLEM SOLVING TOOLS

CONTINUOUS WORKFLO
OW
AND LOW INVENTRY

K
a
i
z
e
n

WORKPLACE ORGANISATION
ELIMINATION OF WASTE

EFF
FECTIVE EQUIPMENT
T
ALWAYS AVAILABLE
A

Date