MCT Beginning

1. Somme benefits of the 5 S method:

• Cleaning habits become second nature
• Component resources are saved
• Rigor and self-discipline become the rule

2. Kaizen is:

• A continual improvement approach
• Significant investment costs
• Long-term habits of small changes
• A forward speed of big leaps from time to time

3. The activities and objectives of the Kaizen approach are for example:

• Promote U-shaped production lines and islands
• Decrease the products on hold during production
• Use gravity as much as possible to transport components and products
• Beat the competitors

4. A Kaizen event is an activity:

• That generates high costs
• From a multidisciplinary team
• To improve a concrete project
• In a limited period of time

5. The process mapping allows us, among others, to:

• Identify beneficiary
• Identify interactions
• Plan the QMS
• Manage inspection means
• Obtain a global vision