ECCJ / Text / Indonesia

ECCJ / Text

Indonesia

“Circle A” (on the preceding page)

< Organizing a group >

Members: 5 – 10 persons. Depending on the theme, (engineer(s) may join the group).
Leader : to be elected from among the members (irrespective of seniority).

< Establish a theme and the target >

considering the problems of their own workplace or production line.

< Study meeting >

2 – 3 times per month.

< Data collection, improvement action and evaluation >

Members collect data by themselves or receive data from the company (energy manager/engineer).
They compile and graph the data, and identify the problem and study the measures by themselves.
Put the measures into practice (if necessary, under the engineer’s permission), evaluate the results.

Toward worth-while SGA
- for activating Small Groups -

Management and Manager's Role

Summary
- Sho-shudan activity in TQM -

Key persons:
Top Management,
Manager, Group leader
(Energy manager)

Energy is used everywhere. Energy is used by everybody. → suitable for TQM
Utilization of workers’ ability (a sense of fulfillment) → Sho-shudan
( Sho-shudan activity is generally included in TQM. )
TQM and Kaizen by Sho-shudan activity are very popular in Japanese enterprises/factories.

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