Category: Poka Yoke
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Poka Yoke
Poka Yoke is a Japanese quality assurance method focused on preventing mistakes before they occur, rather than correcting them afterward. It involves analyzing defects at their source (the gemba), identifying…
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The Basics of Poka Yoke
The Lean Six Sigma methodology offers many tools to improve your processes with. To help you get started with these tools, we thought it helpful to highlight the most useful…
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The Epic of Lean Six Sigma Terminology
Is it Lean? Is it Six Sigma? Is it Kaizen, Genryou, or TQC? If the language of process improvement feels like a modern-day Tower of Babel, you’re not alone. Despite…
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Simplifying Media Service Requests: A Lean Six Sigma Project in Education
At a major educational institution, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project transformed how photography and videography requests were handled. Faced with inconsistent communication channels and missing information in over…
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Streamlining HRM Processes at an educational institution
At an educational institution’s Service Center HRM, a six-month Lean Six Sigma Green Belt project tackled inefficiencies in processing employee data changes, known as HR mutations. Faced with frequent submission…
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Speeding Up Public Record Releases: A Lean Six Sigma Approach
In just five months, a public sector organization cut record request processing time from four hours to under one, a 75% improvement, while slashing operational costs by 50%. This Lean…
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Improving Covenant Monitoring in a Bank: A Practical Lean Six Sigma Journey
In just 4.5 months, a major bank transformed its covenant monitoring process, cutting average response times by over 50% and unlocking an estimated $40.6 million in financial benefits. Using the…