That switch is an excellent everyday example of this concept. Poka-yoke, a Japanese term that means “mistake-proofing,” refers to any tool or mechanism that keeps a person from being able to ...

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 ...

Like a gas nozzle built to prevent you from putting the wrong gas in your tank, poka-yoke is the concept of error proofing to prevent some calamity. If only we could ...

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 ...

What if human operators on the assembly line had some equivalent of a red, squiggly spellcheck line that highlighted errors as they were made? A few days ago, while working on an earlier draft of this ...

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 ...

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 ...