Improvements are feasible anytime and everywhere. Small steps are important as well, if they are well organised. Companies who implement and follow Kaizen® constantly, are more successful in the international market.

The KVP Guide supports the planning, performance and evaluation of improvement projects in all relevant areas regarding efficiency, transparency and traceability.

With the KVP Guide you will:

•  collect and handle proposals for improvements systematically
•  support the project planning and approval procedure
•  create transparency of costs and dates
•  build up a unified project and document management
•  prove the economic results of projects
•  gain statistics and key performance indicators without effort

Standardization: The performance of projects follows the Deming method (PDCA –Plan Do Check Act).

Support: Coordinators and responsible persons are informed about the current project state and the history and will be unburdened from administrative work. For the approval process, the KVP Guide offers a graphical cost/benefit correlation of applied projects.

Economy: For manufacturing companies, the KVP Guide features an automatic evaluation of improvements in the machine effectiveness (OEE). That requires a link to the OEE Analyser or a comparable system.

Scope of functions:

• Target definition and agreement (in the pipeline)
• Collection of improvement proposals
• Structured problem analysis and objectives
• Project planning (features, schedule, budget)
• Document management
• Approval procedure
• Project status tracking (PDCA-phases)
• Project controlling
• Automatic results (using OEE Analyser)
• ROI Evaluation
• Statistics and reporting

The product controls the user access and uses databases like Oracle or SQL Server. Optionally it may be linked to existing MES or data acquisition systems.