Implementing Kaizen and 5s for Process Flow Improvement in Medium Scale Industry

The purpose of this research is to use Kaizen and 5S to assist manufacturing organisation to become more productive and more efficient. Producing high quality of products and services is one of the key concerns in order to keep up with the competition in the global markets. The main objective of manufacturing industries today is to increase productivity through system simplification and incremental improvements. A simple approach has been adopted to create the teams for implementing Kaizen and 5S. This system helps to organize a workplace for efficiency and decrease wasting and optimize quality and productivity via monitoring an organized environment. The study highlights the contributions of Kaizen and 5S strategies to identify the effectiveness of the organisation as well as employee performance and their attitude towards it. It has been analysed that implementation of Kaizen and 5S has resulted in overall improvement of the organization.