November 16-20, Moscow will host the X Russian Lean Forum «Russia do good!». This time to topam Russian companies and corporations, as well as strong team of foreign experts rejoin Mr. Takashi Tanaka, who as a participant I lin Forum present at the first steps Lean movement in Russia, informs «Pacific Russia».
Takashi Tanaka after a successful and eventful career in the Japanese Association of management consultants and Toyota Engineering Corporation joined the company Dassault Systems, where he continued to share with customers their experience and knowledge. Mr. Tanaka has worked with such giants as General Motors, Harley Davidson, Boeing, SAAB, Volvo Car & Truck, Ford Motor Company, Mitsubishi Chemical Co and Toyota. Thus, the use of their management system «Toyota» in the process of product development at Boeing reduced the turnaround time for development and increase revenue from $ 0.2 million to $ 1.2 million concept of R & D with «Toyota» has also helped to reduce the time of development of a common platform for cars General Motors, Opel, Saab and Alfa Romeo from 30 to 22 months.
Mr. Tanaka can be proud of the development of the author’s «system» just in time «for knowledge workers», the application of which in the center of research and development «Toyota» has reduced lead times in the production of up to 18 months and set a world record for the short term development new model SUV. Subsequently, Takashi Tanaka has repeatedly applied this concept in a variety of automotive companies with consistently brilliant results.
November 17, Mr. Tanaka will speak at the conference on the theme «Obey concept for the visual management of the program.» He will tell you how to use developed in the «Toyota» Obey methodology to intelligently and effectively organize work on any project or program, regardless of the industry.
November 18 is scheduled workshop Takashi Tanaka «Lean Product Development», where it will be more coverage of the entire system, from its general principles and concepts to specific instruments, such as the same Obey, cost planning, lean project management, etc. The program also includes training — detailed case studies with Boeing and Toyota.