By Sempeho Manongi 24th August, 2021
Introduction
- Kaizen" is a Japanese management philosophy and know-how that brings about continuous improvement of quality and productivity.
- With continuous improvement being entrenched in the minds of modern – day businesses, implementing Kaizen philosophy into a digital world has to be tackled differently.
How technology has facilitated Kaizen Implementation in Tanzania
- Focus was on Quality Environment (5S)
- Now are in Advance kaizen
- By 2018 33 consultant were trained
- Most of hospital are implementing kaizen at diff levels
- Mbeya hospital as center for Excellence.
- TRA introduced to 3 Tax region.
- Aim on creating trainers:- TRA 292 Facilitators & Tanesco 16 and 25 Reporters dispatched to all regions.
- NIP started implementing kaizen ( 5 Trainers)
- TKU is in place since July, 2012, for coordination of activities
- Stage 1-To train trainers & to start with 13 trained.
- Focus to implement to 3 region as pilot (Dar, Morogoro & Dodoma
- Establishing of TKU under MIT
- Kaizen introduction to industries.
- Stage 2:On 2017 expanded to 8 regions, Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Morogoro, Singida, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Mbeya and Mwanza.
- Training more trainers where currently are 300 trainers, whereby 133 of them are already certified.
- Addition of 4 Regions: Tanga, Kagera, Pwani and Mtwara.
- FKM 2020-2030 is in place
- JCC was also put in place to steer project implementation.
- Partner engagement has been expanded from three (MIT, SIDO & CBE), i.e. Academia, Banks, NGOs and RAS offices in some regions
- Created 200 KAIZEN Coordinators,
- More than 135 enterprises (25% large and 75% SMEs) + 19 clusters
- 59- out of these enterprises have been certified
- Study (2019), for 52 enterprises shows that 58% of the enterprises quoted positive financial impacts
Benefit of Technology in Implementing Kaizen.
- Technology enhanced the engagement among key stakeholder
- Technology helped to communicate with key stakeholders
- Technology helped a lot on resources managements.
- Technology helped to explore different opportunity to understand the problem.
- Automating industrial activities
- Plant layout designing technology)
- Technology improved efficiency on kaizen implementation
Technology has altered methods of Communication
- Video call- Mainly used for training, meeting and discussion on challenging issues.
- Helped to overcome the corona impart on implementation.
Cellphones
- Made the team connected all the time.
Utilized for communicate ideas with client, TKU, Stakeholders & QCC at industries level.
These online chart helped us a lot to gain support or contribution on real time.
Online charts
Social network
Such as:- WhatsApp & other used to Forster the communication during OJT and trainer team (association) This were very active even up to date.
Loading and unloading of bobbins
Before Kaizen
After Kaizen
Conclusion
- Use of technology to improve productivity and quality products is inevitable in digital economy.