It was a Japanese Manufacturing Engineer and Management Expert named Shigeo Shingo who developed the concept that revolutionized the quality profession in Japan. Originally called "fool proofing" and later changed to "mistake proofing". Poka Yoke (pronounced "poh-kah yoh-kay") translates into English as "to avoid (yokeru) inadvertent errors (poka)". The result is a business that consumes less energy, time and resources doing things wrong.The aim is to eliminate the chances of making a mistake. In the worst case, if an error cannot be eliminated totally, ensure that it is detected immediately, before reaching the customer and set right..

Poka Yoke is one of the main components of Shingo's Zero Quality Control (ZQC) system - the idea being to produce zero defective products. One way this is achieved is through the use of poka yoke; a bunch of small devices that are used to either detect or prevent defects from occurring in the first place. These poka yoke devices are simple ways to help achieve zero defects.

Manufacturing and service errors result in defects in products, which may remain hidden for a long-time and suddenly surface creating serious failure of the product. Such defects could be minor causing inconvenience to the clients or major and could even be a great safety or environmental hazard. Anyone, from manager to line supervisor to line employee can develop a poka yoke.

We help our clients in -

Instituting a system for implementing poka-yoke. The employees would be given intense training in the concepts of poka-yoke and the steps to implement them. We would enable teams to understand the processes, the way mistakes happen and how to prevent them from happening.