SME member Jeff Fuchs, a lean consultant and author of the DVD explains, “Whether it’s your check engine light, a smoke detector, or child-proof caps, poka-yoke is all around us. It can make life ...

While buying a pair of dress slacks recently, I was surprised to see the department manager using a mistake-proofing device to mark the pant length for tailoring. He placed an upside-down, Y-shaped ...

In today’s crowded consumer products market, product packaging is an important tool that companies use to connect with customers. Besides protecting contents and informing users about a product, ...

Poka-Yoke is a Japane se term which effectively means “mistake proofing”. The common term we are familiar with is “fool proofing”, but this does not fit in with the Japanese understanding of the ...

Cambridge, United Kingdom-based Team Consulting, a medical device design company, is incorporating the Japanese concepts of “poka-yoke” to its pharmaceutical packaging in attempts to reduce medical ...

Poka yoke, a Japanese term used in the Toyota Production System meaning mistake-proofing or error-proofing, applies to the role discrete sensors now play in quality control, says Tom Rosenberg, ...

Poka-Yoke is a Japanese management style created by Toyota executive Shigeo Shingo in the 1960s that focuses on mistake-proofing operations. Furniture-maker Allsteel has relied on it since the ...