19 Nov, 2021 | News, Strategy
Company-wide KAIZEN Mindset Nurtured with the Strategy Deployment Project – The KAIZEN mindset behind the tangible results – The BETAGRO Group had already been working to improve their own productivity when they launched KAIZEN activities with the support...
19 Oct, 2021 | News, Operations
Olympus Corporation was founded on October12, 1919 as Takachiho Manufacturing Co., Ltd. with the microscope business as the main pillar. The company name of “Olympus” comes from Mt. Olympus. It has been used as the trademark since the days of Takachiho Manufacturing...
27 Jul, 2021 | News, Trends
TPM 50th Anniversary TPM Journey: Tetra Pak Mr. Paulo Picca, Vice President, Processing Solutions and Equipment Production at Tetra Pak, talks about TPM journey of Tetra Pak.
27 Jul, 2021 | News, Trends
TPM 50 Anniversary Message Stephen Fletcher (former Unilever Mfg. Excellence Director) Mr. Stephen Fletcher, former Global Manufacturing Excellence Director at Unilever, talks about Unilever’s successful TPM history.
27 Jul, 2021 | Business development, News
From the agrochemical trade business to the distribution, in 2011, Sumitomo Corporation acquired Alcedo, an agricultural materials sales company in Romania, as it expanded its agrochemical business to the downstream of the supply chain according to the changes of the...
8 Mar, 2021 | Automotive, News
Toyota Industries Co., Ltd. (hereafter Toyota Industries Corporation) set out its “2020 Vision” in 2011 and started to move toward new goals. However, the goal was high, and the same activities and ideas as before could not be used to draw the ideal image for 2020. At...
1 Mar, 2019 | Business development, Columns, Japan
…just accept and give up? When conducting employee awareness surveys with business organizations, one of the more often selected statement options to define the issue awareness is “Collaboration between departments is not good”. Some people say:...
26 Feb, 2019 | Columns, Events, Japan, News
FOODEX at JMA’s table dainties from all over the world At a new start the 44th edition of FOODEX Japan, operning from 5 to 8 March 2019 in Japan (Tokyo Makuhari Messe) as the most popular Asian food & beverage fair. 90 the countries represented, and many...
20 Feb, 2019 | Business development, Columns, Japan, News, Supply Chain Management, Trends
Environmental management and the eco-sustainability of industrial policies were common practice in Japan when – in 2004, JMAC published in Italian the book by Akira Koudate “Eco-Eco Management – sinergia tra Ecologia ed Economia nell’impresa” (Eco-Eco...
