Films · B · Proof · Exegens®
B · Proof.
The Numbers. With the Source.
Book · figure · page.
The Numbers. With the Source.
Book · figure · page.
A claim is only as strong as its source. Every number in these films comes from the published volumes of Strategic Kaizen — and every film names the book, the figure and the page, so that any executive can check every number.
The numbersWhat losses and waste really cost
The sourceBook · figure · page, on every film
Check it yourselfEvery claim can be verified in the volumes
B · 01 · Latest2 min 8 s
B · 01 · 2 min 8 s
The Proof · Heavy Industry · Metal Products
Two plants. Two bottlenecks.
The profit written in the budget first.
Machine shop · assembly line 5, operation 16The profit written in the budget first.
In heavy industry the bottleneck is usually a machine — and the reflex is to buy a faster one. Strategic Kaizen asks first what the losses and waste at that machine cost, and writes the profit in the KAIZENshiro budget before anyone touches it. Two projects, two plants, the cost of both: insignificant.
31 → 23 sequipment ZZ · 2,160 → 2,911 pieces a day
$875,000a quarter of the $3.5M goal · fully met · four weeks
30 → 13 soperation 16 · 1,116 → 2,690 per shift · $34,500 · seven weeks
- Book
- Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD): Profitability Scenarios · Routledge, 2019
- Project 3
- Machine shop, metal products · pp. 192–197
- Project 11
- Line 5, operation 16, metal products · pp. 256–261, Figure 7.9
Equipment Bottleneck
Motion Losses
KAIZENshiro Budget
Fully Met
You do not control the price.
You control your losses and waste.
— Dr. Alin Posteucă · Strategic Kaizen