We all use navigation devices or phones to get to our destination as soon as possible or by the shortest route. While we are shopping, we draw such a route that we add a market, then a bakery, maybe a shopping mall, why? Because time is the most precious thing in this era we live in. For example, we don't go out to get fuel from the house, we usually buy fuel when we are outside. Instead of waiting in traffic, we change the way even if we lengthen the road. We are trying to prevent waste and create benefits somehow.
Our aim is always the same maximum benefit, minimum cost.
We use correlation diagrams when grouping work to be done unconsciously in the workplace. (See Affinity Diagrams) We control stocks in production processes and make sales forecasts so that we can determine the most ideal order range and quantity (see Economic Order Quantity). If there is a problem, we do a cause analysis to fix the problem and prevent it from happening again. (see Root – Cause Analysis). If the orders are not meeting, we ask and think about how we can produce more in the same hour when the capacity is constant. We integrate production processes and eliminate situations that may arise during the execution of the work and create deviations. (see Standard of Procedures, Workplace Management, Time Study)
In short, my point is that; In fact, we all make process improvement in some way, consciously or not.
The critical point here is the benefits it provides us when we make process improvement consciously… If you save 2 seconds by making process improvement in a process that is repeated 500,000 times a year in our business life, 1,000,000 seconds per year, 277 hours, 40 hours a week would cost an employee a week. If you improve 10 processes this way, you gain 10 weeks a year. The gains from frequently repeated processes are always the most. Similar examples can easily be found in your private life. It is necessary to be aware of this, to create awareness.
Being aware of the processes that your life has created for you, it is necessary to live according to the processes that you experience as the most ideal for life. With the philosophy of maximum benefit, minimum cost and prevention of waste, it is always necessary to make improvements (see Kaizen), open to change, by constantly questioning.
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