Hey everyone, welcome to this section. What is Poka Yoke? imagine a scenario where you receive a new desktop computer. Even today, most of the computer accessories such as the monitor, keyboard, mouse, power supply, etc. Connect with the computer through cables. The process of setting up a desktop computer using the different cables is not daunting.

This is because each cable has a different size. The cable pins are of different shapes, and some of them are color coded to avoid any confusion while setting up the computer. However, imagine a situation where all cables are of the same size. The cable pins are of the same shape and there was no color coding available. The task of connecting the cables and setting up the computer would have been Very difficult task. This is a classic example where the makers of desktop computer had used the lean tool called Poka Yoke a.

Yes, this is the tool that we will be studying in the section. In the journey of this course you have studied, what is lean, who are the lean pioneers, what is that Toyota production system, and now you're studying Poka Yoke. In this section you will learn what is Poka Yoke, okay. You will go through an example of Poka Yoke, okay. And then you will do an activity related to Poka Yoke. So why wait, let's begin with the first lecture.

What is Poka Yoke