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Why Kobetsu Kaizen Called As Focused Improvement?

Kobetsu Kaizen refers to focused improvement in Japanese. It emphasizes targeting individual losses that contribute to major losses in order to achieve quick results. Kobetsu is written as "個別" in Japanese characters, meaning "individual." By focusing on individual losses, improvements can be made to reach the goals of zero breakdowns, zero defects, and zero accidents in total productive maintenance.

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Why Kobetsu Kaizen Called As Focused Improvement?

Kobetsu Kaizen refers to focused improvement in Japanese. It emphasizes targeting individual losses that contribute to major losses in order to achieve quick results. Kobetsu is written as "個別" in Japanese characters, meaning "individual." By focusing on individual losses, improvements can be made to reach the goals of zero breakdowns, zero defects, and zero accidents in total productive maintenance.

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Why Kobetsu Kaizen called as Focused improvement?

TPM originated in Japan in 1971, so all the terms were in Japanese.


Kobetsu Kaizen means Focused improvement in Japanese.
Kobetsu is written as below in Japanese.
個別
And the word meaning is ‘Individual’
Which emphasis the importance of targeting individual losses,
which contribute to major losses. This will result in quick results. In
other words, we focus on individual losses, hence the name
focused improvement.
By this portion of the article, you should have got an idea of
Kobetsu Kaizen.
T.P.M. Basic

KOBETSU KAIZEN AND TPM


TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE (TPM) WAS DEVELOPED
BY SEIICHI NAKAJIMA IN JAPAN BETWEEN THE 1950S AND
1970S. THERE ARE 8 PILLARS IN  
TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE. TPM HELPS TO REACH
PERFECT PRODUCTION BY ATTAINING BELOW THREE
POINTS.
ZERO BREAKDOWNS
ZERO DEFECTS
ZERO ACCIDENTS
PILLERS OF TPM
•Autonomous Maintenance (JH Pillar)
•Planned Maintenance (PM Pillar)
•Quality Maintenance (QM Pillar)
•Focused Improvement (KK Pillar)
•Early Equipment Management (DM Pillar)
•Training and Education (ET Pillar)
•Safety, Health, Environment (SHE Pillar)
•TPM in Administration (OTPM Pillar)

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