Poka Yoke - Zero Defects as objective

Establishing intelligent faultless processes

For executives in production, quality management, preparation engineering, equipment design and persons responsible for continuous improvement processes (CIP)
 

Why attend this seminar

Solid and high-quality processes already start a long time before production: Primarily in the design and planning phase, quality can be assured pre-emptively by intelligent and simple measures.

The terms Poka (unintended fault) and Yoke (prevention, avoidance) come from Japan. They
mean “fool-proof” mechanisms which prevent spurious actions and thus emerging costs for their correction.

Thus, employees can concentrate on their actual work. They are virtually deprived of the possibility to do something wrong, or it immediately becomes evident if they have done something wrong. That way, quality increases and costs for the operation of systems, for assembly as well as for indirect sectors decrease.

Faults are time- and nerve-consuming, sometimes even very money-consuming. Often faults can be prevented.

Use Poka Yoke as simple method which can be easily applied and which provides pre-emptive “warning signals or control mechanisms”. It prevents delay or complete stop of production flow by human inadequacies (unhandiness, carelessness, inexperience, excessive demands and suchlike).

Create your processes rugged, simple, reliable!

>  Less defects in parts or faults in production steps
>  Simple on-the-job training and implementation
>  Favouring simple low-cost solutions

Benefits for your work, what you will learn and keep in mind

You get to know the impact of bad quality and experience, which requirement is needed to observe for the introduction of a Zero-Error-Strategy. You will learn the systematic procedure of avoiding sources of error. Significantly is the interaction between methods of analysis and the development of adequate solutions. It is important to recognize the uniqueness of the Poka Yoke-solutions, which is not possible to buy them ready-made. This Poka Yoke is essential to increase your production-know how. In the process the meaning of this method becomes apparent as foundation on the way of added value excellence.