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

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

Nobutoshi Nagaya

Former Toyota Motor East Japan, Inc.: Technical Supervisor & Advisor, in charge of PS (Production System) and TQM (Total Quality Management) projects.
Former Kanto Auto Works: Executive Managing Director, Deputy Head of Production Technology Division, in charge of overseeing overseas business.

Directly learned the essence of TPS (Toyota Production System) from Shin Uchikawa, one of the four lieutenants of Taiichi Ohno, former Vice President. Handled the introduction of the Toyota Production System to various companies both domestically and internationally.

Professional industry
#Automobile

Miyuky Honda

Manager of Consulting Division

Mr. Honda has over 20 years of experience with overseas accounts in Japan.

KOJIMA, Kazuhiro

Digital Innovation/Information Technology Design /Digital Transformation Consultant

A consultant at the forefront of practical implementation, specialized in cutting-edge technologies such as AI, RPA, low-code, IoT, and data science.

With a Master's degree from the University of Tokyo, it is leveraged by profound knowledge and experience to lead in the realms of DX and generative AI. The insights and practical approaches have been recognized and highly esteemed in prestigious forums, including invited lectures at the University of Tokyo's Center for Manufacturing Management and the Japan Warehousing Association.

Field of expertise
#DX

Professional industry
#DI/IT/ DX

Tsuyoshi Ishigamori

Safety and Health Management Consultant

As a full-time health and safety officer, He worked with a major manufacturing company for disaster prevention and health hazard prevention for 15 years. In safety management, He has enhanced activities to reduce the 1,000-person rate, frequency rate, and strength rate, and are in charge of foreman education and new graduate education instructors as RST. In Safety management, the obligations of business owners after conducting health examinations and stress checks have become established. In addition, based on his experience in personnel and general affairs, we explained the Labor Standards Law, the Industrial Safety and Health Law, and related laws and regulations by rank, and enhanced the system to prevent mental insufficiency due to long working hours. We will continue to make efforts so that business owners will not be questioned by the "safety consideration obligation".

Pushpakumara, Thilak

TPM and Lean Management Consultant

Thilak has trained more than 50,000 executives and managers at different levels of 300 leading organizations in Sri Lanka and overseas.
Institute of Lean Management (Pvt) Ltd- Founder & the CEO of the Institute of Lean Management (Pvt) Ltd,
TPM and Lean Management Consultant and the Managing Director of Lean Solutions (Pvt) Ltd, Bangladesh.

Field of expertise
#Quality improvement #Cost reduction #Productivity improvement #Management improvement

Professional industry
#Automobile #Electric and electronic #Others

Tomohiro Suzuki

Former employee of Japan Tobacco Inc., Technical Development Department, Manufacturing Department

Field of expertise
#Human resources development #Production technology

Professional industry
#Chemistry #Others

Paulo Ghinato

CEO & Senior Consultant

Paulo Ghinato holds a Ph.D. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Kobe University, Japan, and a M.Sc. Degree in Production Engineering and a B.Sc. Degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. Ghinato has over 35 years of experience in manufacturing as an Executive, Specialist, Professor and Consultant.

KAKIZAWA, Kouichi

Ricoh Co. - Quality Control Divison Introduced Toyota Production System in Ricoh after training for five years in Motomachi Plant of Toyota Motor Co.

At Ricoh, he launched a Ricoh Production System based on the Toyota Production System.
After that, he instructed other industries, such as food and confectionery industry and medical industry etc., on the Toyota Production System.

Field of expertise
#Quality improvement #Cost reduction #Productivity improvement #Lead time reduction #Safety improvement #Iot #Others

Professional industry
#Architecture / Construction #White collar #Warehouse logistics #Medicine #Food #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.