Thursday, August 07, 2014

Gemba

Gemba:
The Japanese term for “actual place,” often used for the shop floor or any place where value-creating work actually occurs; also spelled genba. The term often is used to stress that real improvement requires a shop-floor focus based on direct observation of current conditions where work is done. For example, standardized work for a machine operator cannot be written at a desk in the engineering office, but must be defined and revised on the gemba.

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