Our Team - Consultant List - | Genba Kaizen Consulting by Hirayama Consulting

Our team is composed of Professionals with experience obtained through work in the most representative Japanese Manufacturing Companies.

ISHIGAKI, Tadamasa

Former Chief Leader of Headquarter plant, Toyota Motor Corporation (OB)

A hard-core craftsman on the shop floor who has supported the assembly group of the headquarter plant at the forefront. His strong feeling for the shop floor that he does not compromise attracts people. He has worked as a skill development group trainer and currently provides various shop floor trainings and guidance including the Toyota Production System.

SUZUKI, Mitsuru

Former Chief Leader of Vehicle Quality
Production Engineering Division at Toyota Motor Corporation (OB)

A hard-core craftsman on the shop floor who has supported the assembly group and company-wide vehicles BMC of the headquarter plant at the forefront. His strong feeling for the shop floor that he does not compromise attracts people. He has worked as a special skill trainer and currently provides various shop floor trainings and guidance including the Toyota Production System.

Field of expertise
#人材育成 #TPS trainer

AOYAMA, Matsuki

Former Motomachi Plant Section Chief, Toyota Motor Corporation (OB)

He has been involved in GPC since its establishment and has trained and mentored a wide range of personnel from new recruits to supervisors in overseas human resource development.

Field of expertise
#TPSトレーナー #Human development

ORITO, Tsutomu

Toyota Motor Corporation

（Manager, Production Control Dept. at Head office factory / GPC）

DENSO TEN Alumni

（Production Management Department / Logistics Management Department Manager Level）

Profit improvements (break away from the deficit) Upon customer’s requests, I have improved domestic and overseas companies, for examples, productivity improvement, quality improvement, products and parts inventory reduction, logistics cost reduction, production lead time reduction, and human resource development for shop floor staff etc.
I also conducted a wide range of seminar courses.

Field of expertise
#人材育成 #コスト削減 #リードタイム短縮 #生産性向上 #品質向上

Professional industry
#自動車 #食品 #その他 #倉庫・物流

HAYASHIDA, Hiromitsu

Former deputy plant manager of Tahara plant, Toyota Motor Corporation (OB)

He provides improvement guidance in accordance with the actual conditions of each company based on the Toyota Production System. He can also provide guidance on improvement activities for entire plant including Production Engineering Department, Production Control Department, and Purchasing Department. He has a wealth of experience in guiding for plants in a variety of industries.

Kouichi Ikemoto

Former Toyota Motor Corporation employee, Head of Press Production Technology Departmen

Practical guidance in the Toyota Production System. Specialist in press mold and press production technology. Provides practical instruction across a wide range of processes including pressing, welding, and assembly at affiliated companies.

Zenji Kosaka

Former employee of Toyota Motor Corporation, Deputy Plant Manager at the Head Office Plant

Practiced under the mentorship of Taiichi Ohno during the formative years of the Toyota Production System.

Adhering to the motto, 'Show by doing, explain by talking, let them try, and must praise to motivate people,' I promote improvements where people play the leading role. Expert in machining and assembly

Toshio Takeuchi

Gemba Kaizen (work-site improvement) Consultant

Tokai Rika Co., Ltd. (OB)

Areas of expertise are innovation instructions for production department, indirect department, production management department, and logistics systems.

Field of expertise
#人材育成 #その他 #生産性向上 #品質向上

Professional industry
#自動車 #その他 #電機・電子 #ホワイトカラー

Takeshi Kawabata

Former DENSO Corp. Production Engineering Division

Learned and implemented the Toyota Production System directly from Toyota Motor Corporation. Also experienced in two new factory constructions and one existing factory renovation, managing construction schedules and budgets as planned, and realizing information and logistics optimization from the factory entrance to exit.

Responsible for the construction of Japan's largest single factory building at the time, covering 120,000 sqm.

Field of expertise
#Others #工場の立上げ支援

Professional industry
#Automobile #Electric and electronic #Metal #Others

ITO, Akihiro

Process improvement consultant

He worked for JIT Institute, Tokyo for 20 years.( JIT: Just In Time). During this period, he has learned Just In Time philosophy and method of improvement of productivity in manufacturing plant. Continuously he has been engaged in effective introduction process of Production Management System to small and medium enterprise and even big enterprise.

Field of expertise
#Productivity improvement #Lead time reduction #Iot #工場の立上げ支援

Professional industry
#Automobile #Electric and electronic #Others

3 reasons why we are chosen
REASON

REASON 1

Improvement experience of
more than 1,500 companies in 40 countries

There must be the shop floor issues that cannot be solved by your own company alone. Improvements and reforms for manufacturing industry to survive, regardless of country or industry, need development of your human resources through practical experiences of improvement, and strengthening of your production system base.

REASON 2

Consulting that shop floor workers
acknowledge our superiority and be pleased

In conventional consulting styles, there was a distance between consultant and the shop floor because it was promoted mainly consultant and management executives. Our consultant can provide a guidance without a distance between consultant and the shop floor through the guidance based on the “seeds of improvement” in a concrete way, instead of “finding fault” like a critic.

REASON 3

Continuous improvement will continue
even after the end of guidance

While strengthening “human resource development”, we focus on the “overall flow” from design to purchasing, manufacturing, logistics, and production control, and provide guidance that matches the actual situation of your company. Continuous improvement will continue even after the end of guidance through the guidance that is acceptable to the shop floor workers.