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 ...

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 ...

The term 'Poka Yoke' was coined in Japan during the 1960s by Shigeo Shingo, an industrial engineer at Toyota. Dr Shingo is also credited with creating and formalising Zero Quality Control (poka-yoke ...

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 ...

Poka-yokes are mechanisms used to mistake-proof an entire process. Ideally, poka-yokes ensure that proper conditions exist before actually executing a process step, preventing defects from occurring ...

A few days ago, while working on an earlier draft of this article, I misspelled the word “factory” as “fcatory.” But the editor at IndustryWeek never knew it: the instant I made the mistake, a ...