A Kaizen team is a Japanese term for a quality circle. It is a group of people who work together on similar tasks who then share and implement improvement ideas. Kaizen tools such as standard work, workflow diagrams, takt time, and pull systems are the main utilities of the team. 
Each team documents the manufacturing process involving the baseline work setup which includes footprint and machinery layout. Included in this documentation are the layout of the machine line, product flow, and information flow. And also signals as to how workers and machines could understand when, what, and the quantity of work effort would be carried out. Sketches of scale layouts and operator’s motions can be documented and line operation gets recorded by video. The team next presents the results of their fact-finding efforts.
The next process for the Kaizen team is to generate ideas for improvement and work within the context of the improvements in order to make them error free. And another goal is to locate and remove wasteful work while emphasizing solving specific problems.
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