As definition of seiton is the easiness and timeliness to get things we need, all we need is “eliminating search process”. We don’t need to spend time only to search things we need, just because we put them in messy place, or in a neat place but difficult to locate what we want […]
December 29th, 2008
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The next step of kaizen is Seiton. This concept is dealing with how we arrange things so that it make us easy to get those things right away once we need them. It is clear that it involves at least two actions; how we keep those things and standard of how urgent we need them.
It […]
July 9th, 2008
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Many of us might think that this kind of activity is a dull, not important and non hi-tech related thinking. But, have we ever thought of how much time we can save if don’t have to search when we need anything? Sometimes we have to spend minutes for searching files we want in thousands or […]
October 15th, 2007
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Well, Japanese people have a good tool in order to “get rid of” this problem. They call it “red tag” movement. Below are steps to guide us to implement red tag movement.
Provide come pieces of tags, (of course, they must not in red, we can use any color, as long the same color for […]
October 13th, 2007
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