Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.

Control charts are one of the statistical tools for solving quality related problems.

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization, introduction of takt time, synchronization, shortening the total production lead time which I am fond of referring to as non statistical tools.

Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time

I believe that management should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) and the other is customer (not the shareholder).