Global KAIZEN Award 2016 in Philippines and Award movie posted

On March 16, 2017, Katolec Corporation (Head office: Tokyo, President: Eisuke Kato, hereinafter referred to as Katolec) held the Katolec Global KAIZEN Award in the Philippines.

The Katolec Global KAIZEN Award is held annually by meeting top executives, executives, heads of directors, site managers, etc. from the eight plants, 11 plants in Japan, including Asia and Latin America and the head office department. Katolec announced examples of improvement of production efficiency and improvement of quality that we worked at factories both in Japan and abroad, and we honored the efforts of the factory that made excellent results.

About 50 people including the improvement presentation members of each selected site gathered this time, which is the second time. Presentation was given on important issues and initiatives for overseas and domestic plants in FY 2016, and after that, six efforts were awarded to the six factories that achieved outstanding results.
In the awards ceremony, President Eisuke Kato said, “The factory will continue to make improvement activities in the future, excelling outstanding examples horizontally, pursuing high productivity, high quality, further manufacturing.”

Katolec is committed to "rectification" from manufacturing to logistics by promoting KIPS (Katolec Innovative Production System) which made use of the thought / method of NPS Study Group*. This continuous improvement activity leads to providing customers with new value as “LOGITRONICS”.
* NPS is Abbreviation of New Production System, the Toyota production system is the source, and improvement of management efficiency is promoted through elimination of all waste Industry group of one industry

As a company that supports the customer’s total supply chain, we will continue to make efforts to improve production efficiency and quality so as to further satisfy our customers.

Katolec Global KAIZEN Award 2016 Result

• Best award: KATOLEC PHILIPPINES CORPORATION 《KAP》
• Excellence Award: KATOLEC SUZHOU COMPANY LIMITED 《KASZ》
• Encouragement Prize: KATOLEC (THAILAND) Co., LTD 《KAT》
• Effort Award: KATOLEC MALAYSIA SDN.BHD. 《KAMP》
• Special Prize: KATOLEC VIETNAM CORPORATION 《KAV》
• Special prize: KATOLEC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS (GUANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. 《KAGZ》

Contact info

■ Sendai Sales Office Mr. Tadanori Abe TEL:+81-22-706-4000
■ Corporate Planning Division Ms. Yoshiko Yamane TEL:+81-87-826-8231

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 Global KAIZEN Award 2016 in Philippines and Award movie posted