Tour Report | July 2023 Lean Japan Tour
Tour report from our July 2023 Lean Japan Tour program which visited Tokyo, Inuyama and Ashikaga, hosting 16 lean professionals from across the globe.
Paul specialises in lean management, process analysis and optimisation, and continuous improvement practices.
Paul received his training in lean management directly from Japanese industry, and shares this knowledge through lean management consulting and kaizen training programs for Shinka Management’s global client base, and lean manufacturing study tours run in Japan.
Shimotsuke Newspaper | International visitors embrace Ashikaga-Style 5S
Shinka Management Lean Japan Tour visit to Ashikaga 5S Town covered in local Shimotsuke Newspaper | 8 July 2023
Radio Hoy | Lean Study Tour to Japan: Executives Experience Lean and Kaizen
Global lean consulting firm Shinka Management organizes lean study tours to Japan to support companies in learning lean manufacturing and kaizen culture from its source.
Portal Innova | Increasing Productivity and Competitiveness through Japanese Kaizen
Kaizen and lean practices offer an opportunity to help organizations improve their productivity and competitiveness, and shield themselves from the impact of moves by the Chilean Government to reduce hours in the working week.
How Lean Leaders Motivate Employees
Lean leader Akinori Hyodo delivered a commemorative seminar to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the founding of the Business Efficiency Association in Latvia on 7th April 2021, on the topic of how the lean leader motivates employees to sustain the lean journey.
Cecilia Macaulay – Consultant
Cecilia applies kaizen and Japanese design philosophies to declutter and improve the home, workplace, shared spaces and daily life. Cecilia’s workshops and consulting bring freshness and enthusiasm to the world of lean management, as she translates concepts from the Toyota Production System into highly do-able, memorable ways to improve daily life.
The Role of a Lean Consultant
Why do some companies succeed with lean? Why do others fail? We explore these questions whilst considering the role that the lean consultant has in guiding companies on their lean journey.
Daryl Kelly – Senior Consultant
Daryl is a hands-on lean practitioner who has 20 years of solid experience applying lean principles across all operational elements of an organisation. Daryl has been directly responsible for the development of a lean culture and understands the relationships between all the elements of a value stream.
OTRS – Work Measurement Software – Kubota Corporation
Kubota Corporation is a manufacturer of tractors and heavy equipment. Kubota deployed work measurement software OTRS10 to increase the speed of their process analysis and kaizen improvement activities. Through video-based analysis using work measurement software, Kubota was also able to effectively transfer skills and know-how from retiring veteran workers.
OTRS – Time and Motion Study Software – Nippon Express
Japanese global logistics services company Nippon Express has a Global Logistics Solution Department that consults on issues relating to operational productivity improvement. The department implemented time and motion study software OTRS10 to increase productivity relating to picking operations within distribution warehouses.