want a paper showing the difference - or relationship - between lean/kaizen/sixsigma/kanabab/tqm or , the same question by another way, how can i determine this is a project using 6 sigma or tqm , ir kaizen or lean of mixture of some of them.
Tags: kanabab, kaizen, tqm, Six Sigma
Lean & six sigma go hand in hand, though they are different approaches to the same problems (six sigma = 3.1 errors in a million possibilities to make an error: it is, roughly said, a TQM approach/philosophy). Lean is simply “the elimination of all waste in your production and administrative processes”. You’ll find concept of 5S, OEE, Autonomous/Professional Maintenance, Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) terms and the like when dealing with Lean.
Kaizen (or Gobetsu Kaizen) simply means “continuous improvement”. Basically analysis you make to improve (e.g. Safety Kaizens => safety workshops where a workfloor situation is analyzed).
In real life, it is often hard to exactly determine what is “lean”, “6Sigma” or TQM, as the concepts are often confused by managers, who use the terms incorrectly.
I do not have a paper or anything on this for you that explains it all. Try to get a hold of books from Jim Womack & Dan Jones: they are the experts in that field…