Title: Performance assessment - PDCA Cycle
Course: BTEC-1300-301-302-303-F21 > Section: Kaizen and the PDCA Cycle

Now let's think of everything that you learned in this lesson. Your task will be to fill out a Kaizen card based on your experience of manufacturing cheek cell kits.

1. For this exercise imagine that the way you manufactured these kits in the previous module was a companies standard way to make this product.
  1. Refer back to your batch records as well as the pictures you took if you need help.
2. Log into sharepoint and download the following documents
  1. STUDENTfacturED Kaizen card
  2. Performance assessment - PDCA cycle
3. Fill out the following sections of the Kaizen card suggesting an improvement on the process based on the manufacturing of the kits as if your way was the company standard.
  1. Date (proper format)
  2. Name
  3. My idea
  4. Benefit to the company
  5. Remember Kaizen is based on small incremental changes. So keep it simple, and something that can be easily measured and tested such as: layout of work space, the way you collect the materials, how much travel is required between steps.
4. Once you fill out the top part of the card, you will then perform the PDCA cycle using the document “Performance assessment - PDCA cycle” to suggest an improvement.
5. Fill out the “steps for implementation” section of the Kaizen card
  1. This information comes from the completed PDCA cycle
6. Submit to canvas your filled out Kaizen card, and the filled out “Performance assessment - PDCA cycle”
7. Scan and save the documents as pdf files
8. Save the performance assessment with its name in the following format then submit it to canvas
  1. Name of Performance assessment - Initials - Date (format DDMMMYYYY)
  2. Example: Performance assessment - PDCA cycle - TD - 20JUN2018
  3. Save the Kaizen card in the following format then submit it to canvas
    1. Kaizen card - Initials - Date (format DDMMMYYYY)
    2. Kaizen card - TD - 20JUN2018
9. It is important that document is named correctly and with the correct date in the correct date format!

Learning Objectives:

- 3.2 - Recommend an improvement for a manufacturing process using a Kaizen card
- 3.3 - Analyze your recommended improvement using the PDCA cycle