By AKI FUKUYAMA/ Staff Writer
December 29, 2019 at 08:00 JST
Badges for kaizen-shi who have taken the in-house lecture, training session and written exam, as well as a stopwatch Ozaki always carries with him to monitor employees’ movements in detail so as to eliminate wasted processes (Mihoko Takizawa)
YASU, Shiga Prefecture--Mitsuteru Ozaki’s creation of a container for parts, makeshift platform truck and anti-explosion production method are among the 2,000 “kaizen” improvement projects he has introduced at Murata Manufacturing Co. [Read More]
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