What is kaizen

Kaizen is the Japanese term for continuous improvement. The kaizen concept was pioneered by in Japan by Toyota as daily challenge to all its to improve their processes and working environment little by little over time the effect of these small incremental changes compound into significant improvements to a company s value added company position.

Today the kaizen approach is endorsed many time using different name by consultants lean operation practitioners and teams of all workers in companies worldwide to bring about lasting and continuous positive change to all types of process.

Kaizen efforts are usually focused on improvement within a workstation or the local work area where a small group of individuals (the kaizen teams ) seek to improve their own work environment and productivity. The tools available to these kaizen teams have long about been little more than pencil paper a stopwatch and their knowledge of the process.

With recent advance in technology and widespread consumer use video is now becoming the tool of choice for those involves in kaizen initiatives.

Timer pro professional offers extremely easy to use video analysis tools designed specifically to compliment kaizen activities quality improvement initiatives and to facilitate on going operator training and knowledge transfer.