Kaizen Best Practices Case Studies by Member Companies of CII Southern Region

June 2012

Kaizen Best Practices Case Studies by Member Companies of CII Southern Region
Kai-Zen is Japanese for "improvement", or "change for the better. It refers to philosophy or practices that focuses upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, game development, and business management, amongst others. When used in the business sense and applied to the workplace, kaizen refers to activities that continually improve all functions, and involves all employees from the CEOs to the assembly line workers. Over the years, organizations have been successfully practicing Kaizen for excellence and have realized that the basic imperatives to survive in todays competitive environment need Kaizen Continuous Improvement. With this background CII Southern Region Manufacturing Competitiveness Sub-Committee started the initiative of Kaizen Competition in 2006 in order to create awareness of the Best Kaizen Practices in the industry and make them known to all. The compilation of case studies provided in this publication are the entries of CII SR Kaizen Competition 2011 Winners Of CII SR Kaizen 2011
First Place Second Place Third Place Large & Medium Scale Manufacturing Category Large & Medium Scale Manufacturing Category Large & Medium Scale Manufacturing Category Brakes India Ltd Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd Mahle Filter System (India) First Place Second Place Third Place Small Scale Manufacturing Category Small Scale Manufacturing Category Small Scale Manufacturing Category New Horizon Engineering Ltd Farida Leatherware Pvt Ltd Sunbeam Generators Pvt Ltd

First Place Second Place

Large & Medium Scale Service Category Large & Medium Scale Service Category Large & Medium Scale Service Category

NCR Corporation India Pvt Ltd Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd T V Sundram Iyengar & Sons Ltd Tirunelveli

Third Place

Case Study 3M Ashok Leyland Anand Engineering Corporation Bharat Earth Movers Limited Bosch Ltd Brakes India Limited Caparo Engineering India Pvt Ltd Cooper Bussmann India Pvt Ltd CRI Pumps Pvt Ltd CUMI Ltd Cura Healthcare Pvt Ltd Dell Farida Group Fenner India Ltd Flextronics International Ltd Ford India Pvt Ltd Greaves Cotton Ltd Harita Fehrer Limited Harita Seating Systems Ltd ITC Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division

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Case Study JK Tyre & Industries Ltd Komatsu India Pvt Ltd Lap Ross Engineering Ltd Lapp India Pvt Ltd Mahle Group NCR Corporation India Ltd Rane Engine Valve Ltd Sansera Engineering Pvt Ltd TVS Sundaram Iyengar & Sons Ltd SRF Ltd Sterlite Industries India Ltd Sunbeam Generators Pvt Ltd TaeguTec India Pvt Ltd Tata Advanced Systems Ltd Titan Industries Ltd Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd TVS & Sons Ltd Voith Turbo Ltd WABCO India Ltd Wheels India Ltd Wipro Infrastructure Engineering

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The CII SR 8th Kaizen Competition is held to motivate member companies striving towards continuous quality improvement (Kaizens) of standardized activities in the process or product in the machine or design thereby saving time, cost, and minimizing wastage. To be held on 28 September 2012

For details on CII SR Kaizen Competition 2012 Please contact: Savitha Rao savitha@cii.in | 044 4244 4555
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