Japanese for 'actual place'. The Gemba is where value is created; often the shop floor.

The real place; the specific place. Usually means the shop floor and other areas where work is done.

Gemba is Japanese for the "actual place" or workplace. In the context of manufacturing, this is taken to mean the factory floor - the real place where activity takes place and where product itself is made. Gemba keiei (pronounced gemba "K" - "A") means managing the workplace as a physical entity and business (rather than simply managing the people who work there). Gemba kaizen means continuous improvement of the workplace.