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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...