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Short Interval Control (SIC) is a factory-floor process for driving production improvements during the shift. Each shift is split into short intervals of time (four hours initially), within which plant-floor employees use data to identify and implement improvement actions. These improvement actions may be countermeasures to ongoing or emerging problems, or they may be actions to improve existing production.

SIC can be seen as a form of Kaizen as it encourages teams to work together to achieve regular, incremental improvements to the manufacturing process.