Kaizen: Let the people who see the waste fix it.
From a quick Point Kaizen at one workstation to larger improvements across the plant. Operators submit from a phone, supervisors score and approve, management sees every site in one report.
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Best ideas had nowhere to go
The people doing the work saw the waste every day. But there was no way to submit an idea, no process to evaluate it, and no feedback loop. So they stopped suggesting. Improvement became a top-down initiative instead of a daily habit.
Now every idea has a path
TeamGuru is continuous improvement software for the whole company, from the shop floor to the boardroom. Every employee submits improvement ideas from any device. Each idea is scored, approved, and tracked from concept through completion to verified results. Proven improvements move to a Published stage, where other sites can find them and copy them.
Point Kaizen in TeamGuru
Point Kaizen: the operator spots it, the whole company sees the result
Point Kaizen is the smallest improvement there is: one person, one spot, one change. A parts bin behind the operator's back, a faded walkway line, a label nobody can read. The operator sees it every shift. What stops the fix is the paperwork. Here is how one small idea travels through TeamGuru, from a phone on the shop floor to the report on the plant TV.
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The operator writes it down in two minutes
A title, one sentence and a photo of how it looks today. In the operator's own language, from a phone or the terminal at the line. Operators work as light users: a simpler screen with only what the shop floor needs, at a lower license price.
Light user · simplified screenNew Point KaizenTitleParts out of reach at assembly station 3Short descriptionTwo bins sit behind and beside me. Every cycle I twist and reach back for parts. Put them on a rail in front of the fixture.Category ErgonomicsPhoto, before Submit - 2
Your approval path, with your stage names
Draft, Go for implementation, Implemented, Published. That is how one manufacturer set it up. Yours can have three stages or six, named the way your people talk. The supervisor comments right on the kaizen and @mentions whoever needs to look.
Kaizen StagesDraftGo for implementationImplementedPublishedSMSarah Mitchell@Mike Turner Good idea, please review. Can maintenance mount a bin rail this month?
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Every line scores it the same way
Impact, originality, feasibility: 1, 3 or 5 points each, and a total the committee can sort by. In later stages the score locks, so nobody rewrites it after the fact. Set the criteria and the points to fit your program.
Kaizen scoringScoring is locked in this stageImpactHigh impact: shorter cycle, lower injury risk135OriginalityIncremental idea135FeasibilityReady to deploy135Total score 11 / 15 points - 4
Before, after, and who did what
Each action has a name, a due date and a percentage done, and it sits in the same action lists as the rest of the plant's work. When it is finished, the after photo goes next to the before photo. Anyone sees what changed in three seconds.
Before reaching back, twisting every cycle After bins in front of the fixture, cycle 40% faster Actions- Mount a bin rail in front of the fixture M. Turner 9/4 100 %
- Update the work instruction and retime the cycle S. Mitchell 9/11 60 %
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Management sees the whole company on one page
The Reports module pulls every kaizen into one report: open and closed by site, new ideas per year, and who is submitting them. Put it on the TV at the SQDIP board, send it as a PDF every month, and thank the people at the top of the list by name.
Kaizen Update for September 2026Open kaizen by site127532Torrance Monterrey Brno Pune SuzhouNew kaizen per year4168951321182022 2023 2024 2025 2026Closed kaizen by site382924159Torrance Brno Monterrey Pune SuzhouNew kaizen by originator1411976J. Kim T. Reyes K. Brooks A. Singh L. ChenConfidential · For internal use only · Page 1
The screens above show one customer's setup. Stages, scoring criteria, form fields and the language of the form are configured to fit your program, and the Impact Summary for savings is a section you switch on when you need it.
What you get
Every operator takes part
Operators work as light users: a cheaper license and a screen with only what the shop floor needs. That makes it realistic to put the whole workforce on the system, not only the supervisors.
One scoring rule for every site
Impact, originality and feasibility, 1, 3 or 5 points each, the same in every plant. Ideas from different sites become comparable, and once a decision is made the score locks.
Nothing stalls between stages
Every kaizen shows its stage and how long it has been open. Every action has an owner, a due date and a percentage done, in the same action lists as the rest of the plant's work.
Financial benefit tracking
Switch on the Impact Summary and each kaizen records what it changed: cycle time, hours, scrap, safety risk, with the period it applies to and a weekly or monthly savings series. Automatic calculations in the metrics module can roll it up by site and year, for the same dashboards and reports as the plant KPIs.
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Everything connects.
Kaizen works on its own. Connected to the rest of TeamGuru it does more: every module below runs on the same platform, with one login.
Strategy Deployment
Employee engagement as a strategic objective, with kaizen as its KPI.
Document Control
The better way of working becomes the documented standard.
Projects & Actions
Bigger ideas easily turn into improvement projects, tracked with every other action.
KPI Dashboards
Ideas, implementations and savings by team and site.
Tier Meetings
Kaizen stats on the SQDIP board at the tier meeting.
Management Reports
Participation and verified savings in management reports.
Common questions
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Can we run Kaizen events (workshops) through the system? +
Do operators need a full license to submit ideas? +
See Kaizen in action
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