In today’s crowded consumer products market, product packaging is an important tool that companies use to connect with customers. Besides protecting contents and informing users about a product, ...

Have you ever accidentally microwaved your face? No? You’ve never opened the microwave door while it was cooking and accidentally exposed your face to microwave energy? I know that you haven’t because ...

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 medical ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poka-Yoke is a Japanese management style created by Toyota executive Shigeo Shingo in the 1960s that focuses on mistake-proofing operations. Furniture-maker Allsteel has relied on it since the ...

Poka-yokes are mechanisms used to mistake-proof an entire process. Ideally, poka-yokes ensure that proper conditions exist before actually executing a process step, preventing defects from occurring ...

Computers in working order and with correct software don’t make mistakes. People, however, make plenty of mistakes (including writing bad software or breaking computers). In quality circles, there’s a ...

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 of the ...