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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zebra Technologies recently announced that automotive manufacturers using Sentinel’s Poka Yoke inspection solution, powered by Zebra’s AltiZ Series High-Fidelity 3D Profile Sensor and Sentinel’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

My favorite anecdote about “design rhetoric” has Japanese manufacturing guru Shigeo Shingo telling Toyota assembly line workers about his clever techniques to ...