Expression japonaise formulée à l’origine par Shigeo Shingo pour désigner la conception d’un processus, d’une activité, d’une machine, dans le but de rendre impossible la survenance d’une défaillance ...

Have you ever accidentally microwaved your face? No? You’ve never opened the microwave door while it was cooking and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...