TPS Seminar Held at Toyota City(Aichi Prefecture)
Recently, TPS seminar was held at Hotel Foresta Hills(Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture) by Mr. Kosaka, who has background lies in Toyota Motors Corporation.
The participants, in attendence from the U.S.A., involved in manufacturing lighting equipment in U.S.A. and Australia, people related to manufacturing space satellite equipment, clothing, apparel, or those related to University or industrial training centers.
On the day, the seminar was held in discussion form, having many questions about “Toyota Management”.
Among them, the strongest was on “the leadership”.
By implementing genba-kaizen(field improvement) and TPS, there are cases that contents of work and the workplace changes.
The participants of the seminar seemed to have concerns about how leaders should react and behave when staffs made some problem, to have cooperation to the changes without resisting, especially at the introduction of TPS.
The seminar has been extended for one hour over schedule, with Mr. Kosaka replying thoroughly to each question whille taking lunch with the participants.
At the end of the seminar, a present was given to Mr. Kosaka from the participants with feeling of thankfulness.
Mr.Kosaka seemed to be very pleased as well, to knowing the contents of the seminar were accepted with satisfaction by the participants.
Thank you all for your cooperation.
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