Lean BasICs 11
improvement will be based. If you think of ‘standardization’ as the best that
you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow—you get somewhere.
But if you think of standards as confining, then progress stops.” With this
thought in mind, it is obvious that standard work is one of the cornerstones of
continuous improvement.
Kaizen: Continuous improvement of an entire value stream or an individual process to
create more value with less waste. ere are two levels of kaizen: 1. System or flow kaizen
focusing on the overall value stream. is is kaizen for management. 2. Process kaizen
focusing on individual processes. is is kaizen for work teams and team leaders.
—Lean Lexicon, 4th edition
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