Baka Yoke

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Baka yoke. Baka yoke is idiot or fool proofing a manufacturing technique of preventing mistakes by designing the manufacturing process equipment and tools so that an operation literally cannot be performed incorrectly. Older name for poka yoke it meant fool proofing. The principle is the same for both terms. The initial term was baka yoke which means fool proofing.

Poka yoke asal kata dari baka yoke dibaca. Baka tolol poka kesalahan yang bodoh. Baka yoke short version. In 1963 a worker at arakawa body company refused to use baka yoke mechanisms in her work area because of the term s dishonorable and offensive connotation.

A japanese term for a manufacturing technique for preventing mistakes by designing the manufacturing process equipment and tools so an operation literally cannot be performed incorrectly. Citation needed poka yoke is derived from poka o yokeru ポカを除ける a term in shogi and igo referring to avoiding an unthinkably bad move usage. In addition to preventing incorrect operation the technique usually provides a warning signal of some sort for incorrect. Needless to say it is not the most politically correct of terms and has been replaced in common use by poka yoke or mistake proofing.

Hence the term was changed to poka yoke which means mistake proofing or more literally avoiding yokeru. Poka yoke was originally baka yoke but as this means fool proofing or idiot proofing the name was changed to the milder poka yoke. Yaitu sikap kerja pandai untuk menangulangi terjadinya kesalahan kesalahan yang berakibat fatal muculnya biaya pemborosan kerusakan dan kegagalan operasi. More broadly the term can refer to any behavior shaping constraint designed into a.