What is Correction
Correction is additional effort required due to faults, scrap or bad quality.
Lean Yellow Belt tools
You can use these Lean Yellow Belt tools to eliminate or reduce correction Muda (waste):
- 5S
- Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)
- Standardized Work
- Visual Management (also known as Visual Controls, Visual Factory, Visual Thinking or Visual Workplace)
Lean Green Belt tools
You can use these Lean Green Belt tools to eliminate or reduce correction Muda (waste):
- Bottleneck Analysis (a.k.a. Theory of Constraints (TOC))
- Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA)
- Jidoka (Zero Defect Principle)
- Kaizen task-force workshops (a.k.a. Kaizen Blitz or Kaizen Event)
- Poka-Yoke (Error Proofing)
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Short Interval Control (SIC)
- Value Stream Map (VSM)
Lean Black Belt tools
You can use these Lean Black Belt tools to eliminate or reduce correction Muda (waste):
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