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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE JAPANESE TRADITION: In Japanese, poka-yoke is a term which is referred to the mistakes that can be corrected before they do any harm. This is also known as “error-proofing.” This technique was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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