Seminar Training Calendar 2024
Classroom Instruction, Hands-On Practice and SGC's Exclusive Plant Tours
SGC conducts regular public seminars, covering a variety of topics for every step of your Kaizen journey.
SGC organizes an exclusive special seminar only for you. We propose a satisfactory seminar for each to meet the degree of lean advancement and study theme you are interested in. Please Contact us about your requests for private seminars.
“Quality Improvement” always exists in every corporate management tasks.
In order to raise the profit ratio, every company is trying to work on some of the quality improvement. And furthermore, the company must strive to improve the quality of service and the quality of products, based on the idea of “Customer First”. That is because it can become the company’s “Strength of Brand”.
An approach from problem solving as the method to improve quality is effective not only for manufacturing industry but also for service industry.
Automated production works wonders when everything goes smoothly, but problems do occur. Manufacturing groups reduce the impact of these problems by Jidoka(Autonomation). Jidoka is the Kaizen principle that optimizes the automated production line. Since machines can’t make intelligent decisions, human operators must watch for and address problems as they arise. Therefore, we create a system with Jidoka as important as the JIT that “when a defect arises or it is likely to arise, it stops processing immediately.” That is, when abnormality occurs, it is immediately detected and stopped, so that the occurrence of defective product is prevented, and a process that “incorporates quality in the process” to produce only good quality products is created. As a result, this eliminates inspection and rework waste, releases a worker from watching machines, so the worker can perform other value-added work. Upon production activity, Jidoka must be implemented along with the JIT. In addition, you will learn how to build a Chaku-Chaku line, and a flexible manpower line that can respond to production fluctuations, how to arrange Standard Work, and how to create Karakuri equipement.
What will I gain from this seminar?
You will master skills to analyze and design a production system which mainly incorporates:
- Jidoka concept and its roles
- How to create a Chaku-Chaku line
- How to create a flexible manpower line and how to arrange Standard Work
- How to create Karakuri* equipment
* A method of enabling equipment operation without using electricity, air pressure, etc.; using only gravity, springs, and weights.
It is not possible to introduce Toyota Production System in its exactly the same into your company.
Each company has built a good culture so far. And Toyota Production System is the world’s number one production system that enable to sustain company growth continuously. It is important how to unite the good culture of each company and Toyota Production System. In this seminar, you learn the methods and utilization to ingrain Kaizen permanently as a corporate culture.
How should management be positioned to promote Lean activities? Important to Lean establishment is to clarify upper management policies and ensure everyone is moving in the same direction. It is also important to create an environment where anyone can work on Kaizen activities. We will introduce detailed methods of creating, and sustaining, a highly-motivated working environment. You will learn the roles and methods management should know for the deployment and establishment of Lean. You can observe how the Lean concepts learned in lectures is practiced on actual shop floors.
What will I gain from this seminar?
You will know...
- the role of management in promoting Lean
- how to proceed with Hoshin Kanri and Daily Management
- how to create a workplace where you can continue Kaizen activities
Demonstrate that Kaizen can be as successful in the office as it is on the shopfloor. Kaizen has its roots in the manufacturing industry, but if you can master the way of thinking about improvement, it can be applied to any workplace. You will learn techniques to solve problems through visualizing work; then expose problems and observe work from TPS point of view; focusing on factors such as the time spent on completing one task, the quality of the work being done, and whether the work is really necessary.
Office Kaizen is basically the same as Kaizen practiced in manufacturing shop floor.
How long does it take to finish one task? How is the quality of that work?
Is there any unnecessary cost occurring? Is that work really necessary?
You will learn to find and solve the problem by understanding the current situation from the point of reduction of delivery, quality improvement, reduce cost and eliminate waste. You will experience practical approach through the basic lecture and hands-on practice in the class which is necessary to solve the problems. At the end of the tour, we are planning to take you to observe the actual office where they are working on office Kaizen.
What will I gain from this seminar?
You will develop...
- an ability to practice various visualization techniques to find waste
- an eye for finding waste
- an ability to eliminate
EXECUTIVE PLANT TOUR:
While the decision to implement Kaizen affects every employee in a company, the success of Kaizen depends primarily on support from top management to all employee levels. The Executive Tour is designed specifically for a company’s key decision makers or personnel who may be in charge of Kaizen activities in future to understand the benefits of Kaizen and how it works.
The tour introduces participants to Japanese factories that already use Kaizen for real-life examples with tangible results.
Participants meet with Kaizen expert executives for question/ answer sessions and case study discussion. The plant tour is the best way for companies to learn just how much Kaizen may effectively improve their business results.
Kaizen Promotion Office (KPO) PLANT TOUR:
A seminar is scheduled for those who have involved in Kaizen Promotion Office (KPO). KPO members need basic knowledge of various Kaizen methods widely. This tour comprises a lecture on KPO, hands-on practice at a classroom and inspection tours of plants where the KPO has been successfully deployed.
First of all, the flow of material goods slows down in the process to "procure parts," "produce parts," "convey material within the factory," and "deliver finished products to clients," which necessitates a place to store those material goods. Since those material goods become inventory, it becomes necessary to have inventory control with more forms and to have a worker involved. Taking the chain-reaction of such waste as a problem, you will learn how to solve this problem. The Just In Time (JIT) is a system as well as an idea of “producing and conveying only what is needed, when it is needed, and in the amount needed," and you will learn the instrument called “Kanban" that realizes the JIT. In the Kanban you need to understand the entire Kanban system and learn the procedure of part procurement and logistics improvement.
What will I gain from this seminar?
You will understand...
- the JIT concept, and the concept of Kanban that is an instrument to realize JIT production
- production process flow and installation methods for Kanban
- JIT logistics and logistics optimization
- Procedures for logistics improvement
- Supply chain management
Being the first to market doesn't guarantee beating the competition, but it certainly is a large step forward. However, in order to get that head start, a web of logistical issues - from procurement to equipment preparation - must be dealt with for efficient operations. To fully leverage this strategy, all logistical issues must be resolved at the lowest cost available with minimum time delays. This requires thorough, effective preparation and planning. The Just In Time (JIT) system can take a process from preproduction to production without waste or delays - if integrated correctly. Producing "Products" of superior quality, at a highly productive "Plant", via controlled "Processes" will lead to enhanced profits. In order to achieve this, all activities need to be reexamined starting at the most fundamental level, from the new product development stage through the production preparation stage. Starting at the preparation stage, all preparations need to be completed quickly and in a timely manner, based on the JIT concept.
The seminar aims to allow participants to acquire necessary acknowledge and ability to implement it. We call this Production Preparation Process activity "3P" and promote it.
What will I gain from this seminar?
You will master skills to analyze and design a production system which mainly incorporates:
- Effective production plans and processes based on the Shingijutsu Global Consulting Production System (SGC-PS)
- New product designs / manufacturing systems which eliminate problems inherent in traditional designs / systems