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Kaikaku
Philosophy

Kaikaku

改革Japanese

Radical, breakthrough change of a process or system, as opposed to incremental Kaizen.

Examples

  1. 01A plant replaces a batch-and-queue paint line with a continuous flow cell in one quarter.
  2. 02A warehouse redesigns its entire layout from functional zones to customer-order flow.
  3. 03A company moves from monthly to daily production scheduling across all lines.

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