Process Improvement: Six Sigma & Kaizen Methodologies 

Really liked your video. It’s hard to be all with the same understanding and agreement, I respect every comments. I’d remark that PDCA involves standardization as part of the ‘act’ step. It does not matter if you call it PDCA, PDAC or PDCV, etc., the importance is the mindset, approach, practice, results, etc. About 6s, there is also a strong cultural aspect based on the approach to attend processes variability. The rate of 3.4 defects is related to one million of opportunities rather than one million of products, as one product may have more than one opportunity of failure, which means more than one defect as a potential result of a higher process variation. This is a key factor to understand when we start talking about process variation. Thanks again for sharing. It would be interesting to watch a similar video about Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. Regards

I am a Six Sigma Black Belt (equivalent - my old company didn't dare use those trademarked terms). But for the huge company for which I now work as a quality "attack dog" reporting directly to the departmental boss in one much smaller sub-unit), it seems to me that Kaizen is the way to go, mentoring and monitoring, but setting up and empowering local Kaizen teams, starting off with a few quick wins, defining essential departmental metrics for their process inputs (kicking off with SIPOCs to help identify gaps and issues, so a bit Six Sigma-y), but essentially changing the culture, which is all but impossible in a huge monolith. I have been given carte blanche to do this, and also other company units that interface with ours, and also external suppliers.

the 5Ss are really innovative in my opinion, they really show the efficiency of the Japanese culture.

This video definitely helps in brushing my knowledge as I’m currently preparing for KPMG six sigma green belt certification. Thank you for sharing.

I never heard PDAC before in my whole life. It is PDCA, as stated in ISO 9K Series as the standard's fundamental.

Fundamental flaws in the presentation: American consultants going to Japan had no hand in developing Kaizen. It was only Deming who shared the initial concepts with Toyota during his self-imposed exile in Japan owing to the ignorance he received from Ford. Toyota had already started to develop their own Lean Tools owing to economic drivers. Also it is PDCA and not PDAC.

This is very well,-done, Sir ! Clear and concise explanation! I love the white board approach!! Needed a six sigma refresher before the conference i'll be attending tomorrow! Thank you sooo much!

Thanks for the great explanatory video. Two suggestions: 1. Those are actually kanji characters, not katakana as was suggested 2. It is spelled "statistical"

very imprtant process

Very good summary, thanks. There's a lot of pedantic comments in the comments section but for me, this was great!

Just a correction that is not 3.4 defects per million of products produced. It is 3.4 defects per million opportunities of defects.

Very thorough walk through of the differences and similarities between these two solutions, thank you!

I'm having my quality management exam tomorrow and your video actually helped, thank you so much

Another one, it is not 'Deming's PDAC'. Mr Deming himself referred to it as the Shewhart Cycle and preferred to call it the PDSA cycle. Besides as already pointed our by the others here it is PDCA especially in the context of mentioning Deming. It could be PDAC etc.. elsewhere.

Loved the whole video and got to know about certain terms with nicest examples. This video helped me choose lean sigma certification from KPMG and it was worth it.

Small correction US went to learn what is that kaizen not to help Japanese make the kaizen.. amazing how bluntly you guys can upside down anything

This is amazing stuff! I’ve seen both these methods used at Standard Bank at the same time. They are all about culture improvement and also have projects for improvement, this is why their slogan is Moving Forward because they are! Thank you sir for sharing this snippet of knowledge. God bless your business

It is PDCA not PDAC, You have not Done PDCA before making this VIDEO ?

The video and the comments make this video great.

Good video, but I agree with some others here who made a comment that it opened too much the topic.

It's really intressting but it's called PDCA; plan do check act. not PDAC

Thnx man. Very helpfull to orientate in this fascinating subjects!

Thanks for the info! I was looking for some CI ideas and this video was a great point to start

Very informative. Liked this video. Nicely explained.

Isn't Deming Cycle - PDCA instead of PDAC? Plan , Do, Check and Act

Done well, good job. Needed a six sigma refresher of the basics sinse college. Appreciate it, thanks.

Yea I saw that too is PDCA not PDAC, but it looks like your very sure about PDAC, I wonder why?

PDCA - Plan Do Check Act

Nice comparative video. Though the styles and approaches were different they an be incorporated as an advantage to ones success.

Professor thanks for the help and all the information hope to hear more from you soon . Happy 2019 keep the hard work

There are different acronyms PDCA, PDSA, PDAC - same idea

thank you, great presentation!

Awesome information

If I follow this every day what will happen?

It's not "the katakana" but the "kanji" (Chinese characters) for kaizen.

Great video thank you

Very helpful introductory video on process improvement methodologies. Igor Goldshteyn

Is there a concept of overlap of both these in any existing companies? Adopting best of both the world's?

This was awesome! thank you!

Thanks. I really liked the way you shared knowledge. I am from India.

excellent! Thank you

very important for me....

very helpful for my project .thanks :)

Nice sharing

Great!

Great video. That's Kanji though, not Katakana--the word kaizen written in Chinese script.

Very helpful

Thank you.. that is helpful

Thanks!

Thanks it is clear for me now.

it is very help full

First off, its PDCA...not PDAC...Even ig you go by concept, PDCA Stands for Plan, Do, Check and Act NOT Plan, Do, Analyze and Change that you mentioned

Valiant effort to fairly represent two very different approaches to improvement. However a basic flaw in the interpretation - or the original etymology - of 'kaizen,' as well as the complete hash-up of the PDCA Cycle destroys whatever credibility you and your company have in this area. 'Kaizen' properly translated means 'self development' or betterment (kai) of men (zen). The colloquial meaning of kaizen stemmed from the overusage of the term by western interpreters rather than what the true architects of Lean, being Mr Ohno, Mr Shingo, Mr Imai and others, who would use 'kairyu' to mean incremental improvement of the shop floor. The original and correct 'self-improvement' also aligns nicely with the 'humanizing' and cultural impact aspects of the methodology, doesn't it? Both methodologies use the Scientific process as a fundamental platform; Identify the problem, hypothesize the cause, test the proposed solution and correct following an examination of the results. To put the Adjust before the 'Check' is evidence that whoever put the presentation together had no idea what they were talking about. This is not pedantry. The first task of a presenter is to get it right. Who knows how many budding change agents are going to be ridiculed based on accepting and regurgitating this simple and easily preventable mess. The worst part of it is they'll never know why they didn't get the job, or why the customer didn't accept their proposal. A significant difference between the two methodologies is absent, and this stems from them being based on the scientific principles; Kaizen is always conducted as a series of 'experiments' whereas a six sigma program is expected to solve the problem once and for all. A single kaizen is expected to address 80% of the apparent waste in a small area, followed by a few more, to put the problem to rest. And the PDCA cycle is spun a couple of times in each kaizen. A kaizen uses some data but depends largely upon observation of fact while Six Sigma is based on statistical analysis and is therefore dependent on the volume and quality of data available. This explains why a pure Six Sigma program can take a year or more to complete, by which time the root cause could have disappeared or moved. The best Six Sigma projects use a series of Kaizen in the A/I phase to address the list of root causes.

Outstanding!

Thanks

Thank you so much. You're great

Chinese characters in japanese are not "Katakana" they are called "Kanji".

@kamalesh I was about to post it's PDCA. haha

You explain it, very well¡ thanks

I found his knowledge is Wikipedia based not on practical based.

best video

Thank you very much :)

What is the difference between project management and kaizen/six sigma?

thank u

statisical.

its very helpful

Never thought Ted Mosby is applying six sigma in architecture.

It is PDCA not PDAC!

whats the point? I need to improve my production or process. Ofcourse I'm going to point out the errors and detect the faults, rectify them. Make adjustments. Why do we need to name it kaizen or six sigma? When it's just common sense for the person handling the process. "People who have the full time job to look for errors". They are quality inspectors and they have to check for errors obviously. WHY THE SPECIFIC NAMES ?

PDAC? That would not have been on your spell checker, however an error.

Good

Sorry to dis-agree.. Both Six Sigma and Kaizen made an impact by changing mentality driven by the leaders of the organization.. and itsPDCA not PDAC.. thanks

PDCA- PLAN DO CHECK ACT

PDCA

That is not Katakana that is kanji

It is called PDCA and you also get SDCA. Please do your research.

How can I get a black belt in Six Sigma?

You wanted to talk about Kaizen but you ended up talking about stuff and not how Kaizen is handled

pdca not pdac

PDAC?!

The are called kanji not katakana.

改善 is kanji, not katakana

DMAIC is tipically pronounced /duh-may-ik/

Is he Italian or something

Not Katakana those are kanjis!

It’s not kanji. It’s jumanji

Kabi please read about TWI(training within Industries) then you will comprehend where CI comes from. America helped Japan factories with KAIZEn through TWI.

he’s so cute

Geez, I'd say take over rather than help.

This fuckin guy

Six sigma is trash. My corporation uses it and it only makes work harder and slower without improving quality. Just look at the operation that started it, they died. Look at the company that started Kaizen, they are a powerhouse and they are still growing. Six sigma is centralizing power. Kaizen is decentralizing power. Six sigma is dehumanizing. Kaizen is humanizing.

How are you a project manager making a video on process improvement and your video is full of stammering, flatly lit, shot at bad angles ... etc. This is a clear example of why you should hire experts in fields you're not familiar with. Don't cater your own wedding if you're an accountant.

6sigma is defect minimisation (you can’t technically eliminate defect). What you want to eliminate is waste, which is Lean. Kaizen just means change (first badly written Chinese character (kanji in Japanese). Kaizen isn’t a methodology, lean is the methodology from its principle developed from Toyota production system. Inaccurate content and history!

Not great

Americans claiming what is not theirs again. 😒

Your Japanese character strokes are so bad! 😂 Top marks for trying though.

thanks