Deployment Category
Deployment methods are focused on examining whether continuous improvement and development operations are designed and practiced sustainably and effectively. It includes projects on systems, organization, development-transformation culture, and future-oriented projects. Your project propositions are expected to contain the following topics:
- OpExSys Teams
- System-Process Approaches
- Project Tracking and Management Systems
- Cultural Transformation – Competence Improvement Programs
- Practices that Provide Solutions to Multiple Areas
Lean Category
It includes projects aiming to increase profitability, reduce costs, and improve the quality of the work by focusing on the quality of products and/or services offered by the business, the process performance, and the efficiency of raw materials, materials, energy, equity, and human resources. Your project propositions are expected to contain the following topics:
- 5S Projects
- Major (Kabetsu), 3M or TIE Kaizen
- Work Balancing Projects
- Poka-Yoke, Jidoka, Kanban Projects
- TPM Projects
6 Sigma Category
It includes projects aiming to increase the organization’s profitability and competitiveness by focusing on goals such as improvement of the effectiveness of business’ process improvement operations, solving issues related to processes, solving problems via the DMAIC approach, and meeting customer demand to near perfection. Your project propositions are expected to contain the following topics:
- Projects with DMAIC Methodology Applied
- Chronic Quality Problems
- Design of Experiment Projects
- Multi-objective Optimization Projects
- Capability Projects