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company objectives through policy deployment, nearly 100 percent of the

kaizens submitted at the plant were being implemented by 2008.

SHIFTING THE PROBLEM PARADIGM

Today, associates in Autoliv plants across the world participate in a vari-

ety of proactive team exercises designed to drive continuous improvement

through application of APS principles. One of the most successful of these

approaches is the “focused workshop” used daily at the Ogden airbag

assembly facility. ese workshops are used to improve the kaizen pro-

cess by involving associates to solve the specic issues of t