Objective
Following the Japanese lead, manufacturing organisations world-wide, have been investing huge efforts in promoting and implementing continuous improvement methodologies (Kaizen). Kaizen aims at systematically eliminating any kind of waste, through empowering workers at all levels and involving them in the permanent search for new methods of work, improved ways of designing, producing, monitoring, managing etc.
A key issue in implementing Kaizen successfully, is the creation of a continuous improvement culture within the workforce, at all levels, and of an appropriate environment that favours & encourages people's involvement, empowerment and commitment. Equally important is the availability of appropriate tools to manage Kaizen, to record performance, analyse problems, evaluate solutions, track achievements etc.
KISS aims to make the full scale implementation of Kaizen more cost-effective, in both large organisations and SMEs. KISS will
- consolidate a Kaizen implementation and management methodology (the KISS methodology). A KISS handbook will be produced addressing all key issues from Kaizen take-up procedure to organisation & management practices, working best practices, standards and results achieved etc.
- develop, test, validate, demonstrate and exploit an innovative supporting tool (the KISS IT-infrastructure) which will build on the aforementioned methodology and address in a coherent and integrated way, needs for support at the 4 different levels of Kaizen implementation i.e. individuals, groups, sites (e.g. single factories) and enterprise (multi-site organisations). KISS will combine into a modular and integrated IT-infrastructure technologies for decision support, workflow, and communications, with specific emphasis on HCI - Human Computer Interfaces - and integratability with existing systems.
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20126 MILANO
Italy
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