Akira Takenaka
Thomas DeForge, Principal Partner of Lean Value Solutions, International is pleased to announce that Mr. Akira Takenaka, a world renowned lean manufacturing Sensei, has joined our organization as a Senior Consultant and Advisor.
Mr. Takenaka started his career at Toyoda Gosei. During his tenure, he was appointed to their KAIZEN promotion office which was led by the founder of the Toyota Productions System, Taiichi Ohno. After many years of service in this role, he was promoted to Executive Vice President of Toyota Motor Corporation. In this role, he worked even more closely for Mr. Ohno, who also became an executive for Toyota.
In 1987 he became a partner with Iwata Yoshiki and Chihiro Nakao and together they started the Shingijutsu Co., a Lean manufacturing consultant group. Crafting their skills under the tutelage of Taiichi Ohno throughout their careers, The Shingijutsu Co. and their consultants are widely known as the best implementers of a lean enterprise business strategy.
As a founding member of Shingijutsu, Mr. Takenaka has extensively consulted with several large corporations around the world.
Some of the most notable clients Mr. Takenaka has worked with are the Danaher Corporation, and their very first client, Wiremold, two companies known as the first successful companies in the US to integrate a successful Lean Business Strategy.
Thomas Deforge and his partners Mark Long and Stephen Crane state that they are extremely excited and honored to have Mr. Takenaka as part of the team. Deforge says, His integrity and knowledge of lean manufacturing is second to none. Our greatest honor is when he stated that he is happy to join a group that practices and believes in the Lean Manufacturing principles taught by Taiichi Ohno. Mr. Takenaka is currently assisting our clients in Asia and Japan. He will be available for US Consulting work in 2008.
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Thomas E. DeForge
Lean Value Solutions, International
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LVSI & INFORMANCE FORM AN ALLIANCE
TO HELP MANUFACTURERS ACCELERATE IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES
Deep domain process management, visual factory and EMI expertise for lean manufacturing.
EAST WINDSOR, CT and REDWOOD CITY, CA - May 8, 2007 - Lean Value Solutions International (LVSI), a leading process management consulting firm, and Informance International, a leader in Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) solutions, announce a partnership to deliver comprehensive manufacturing improvement solutions to companies eager to accelerate improvement initiatives, drive operating strategies and obtain actionable insight for operational performance. The new relationship leverages Informance's leading manufacturing intelligence technology and domain expertise combined with LVSI's lean manufacturing expertise to effectively deliver high value solutions for lean manufacturing. Consumer goods, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, medical device, industrial, and many other types of manufacturing firms will benefit from the combination of proven EMI technology and deep domain industry expertise as they strive for the highest levels of productivity.
LVSI has a long history and deep expertise in delivering world-class process improvement for the lean enterprise and lean manufacturing in a wide variety of industries. LVSI will leverage Informance's manufacturing intelligence and patented analytics to enable their Global 1000-class clients to achieve, sustain and build on process improvements in plants and throughout the manufacturing facility network.
"Maintaining competitive advantage depends on a manufacturer's ability to sustain and build on improvement gains," comments Sunil Singh, CEO of Informance. "The LVSI - Informance combined offering ensures they target improvement efforts wisely and have the real-time metrics visibility and analytics to support those efforts."
According to LVSI CEO, Tom DeForge, "In a lean environment, the companies that can quickly and precisely identify opportunities to improve operations, while involving their entire team - from enterprise leaders to plant staff - and use real-time, precise metrics and analytics to empower their teams are far more likely to achieve corporate manufacturing goals and realize their strategic vision. And, they can do this faster than anyone else! This is why we are so excited about Informance solutions and our relationship with them"
To illustrate the importance of real-time reporting of performance metrics and the importance of a structured improvement initiative, Informance recently published a benchmark study analyzing efficiency of best-in-class manufacturers compared to average and laggard companies. During the study, researchers found that best-in-class manufacturers and their workforce had greater visibility to key metrics and more frequent measurement of those metrics. As a result, best-in-class identified 99.5% of operating losses against their key performance metrics and have processes to quickly react to key performance indicators (KPIs) that deviate from acceptable levels. The researchers found that KPI reporting propagated throughout each plant enables a much more agile and proactive enterprise.
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