Japanese Manufacturing Expert to Speak On Campus
Wednesday, November 1, lecture is free and open to the public
Lean manufacturing movement pioneer Toshihiro Nagamatsu, president of Gifu, Japan-based consultancy Shingijutsu Company, Ltd., will speak at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on Wednesday, Nov. 1.
Nagamatsu’s presentation will begin at 6 p.m. in the McGarvey Commons of the college’s Reed Union Building. It is free and open to the public.
Prior to joining Shingijutsu, Nagamatsu was part of a kaizen consulting group for Toyota-associated companies under the guidance of Taiichi Ono, creator of the Toyota Production System, an approach later adopted worldwide under the generic names “just-in-time” or “lean” manufacturing. Kaizen is a philosophy of continuous incremental improvement of an activity to eliminate waste; at Toyota, Ono famously applied it starting at the shop-floor level.
As a consultant, Nagamatsu travels worldwide to share his experience in new model development, new production line set up, heijunka (a scheduling tool used to create a smoother production process) and kaizen for senior management.
Nagamatsu’s lecture is the fifth Face2Face Peer Networking Event hosted by the Technology Council of Northwest Pennsylvania. He will give a half-hour presentation, and then take questions from the audience for an additional half-hour.
For more information about Nagamatsu’s Erie appearance contact Brenda Borgia, event coordinator for the Technology Council of Northwest Pennsylvania, at brenda.borgia@technwpa.org or 814-451-1174.