http://www.leansixsigmaacademy.com/lean-six-sigma-kaizen-kanaban/ Keeping Businesses Lean & Successful Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:24:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.leansixsigmaacademy.com/lean-six-sigma-kaizen-kanaban/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Bas L Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:14:43 +0000 http://www.leansixsigmaacademy.com/lean-six-sigma-kaizen-kanaban/#comment-17 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... 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…

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