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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coined by Toyota, there's a term in the automotive industry called "Poka Yoke," which basically means establishing a manufacturing process so that it's essentially error-proof. One way this can be ...

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 ...

Zebra Technologies recently announced that automotive manufacturers using Sentinel’s Poka Yoke inspection solution, powered by Zebra’s AltiZ Series High-Fidelity 3D Profile Sensor and Sentinel’s ...

My favorite anecdote about “design rhetoric” has Japanese manufacturing guru Shigeo Shingo telling Toyota assembly line workers about his clever techniques to ...