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CONTACT: Mary Price
Shingo Institute
Phone: +1.435.760.0711
Email: mary.price@usu.edu
The Shingo Institute Welcomes Institute of Lean Management as a New Provider of Shingo Workshops
Summary: Shingo Licensed Affiliates are private companies who contract with the Shingo Institute to teach Shingo workshops to groups and individuals. The Institite of Lean Management has just contracted to become the first Shingo Licensed Affiliate in Sri Lanka.
Logan, Utah — The Shingo Institute, a program of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, has partnered with the Institute of Lean Management to become the Institute’s newest Shingo Licensed Affiliate. This partnership means that the Institute of Lean Management will teach the Shingo workshops to groups and individuals interested in improving the culture of their organization to improve efficiency, working conditions, and value.
“We are very excited to have the Institute of Lean Management as a new affiliate partner,” said Ken Snyder, executive director of the Shingo Institute. “It is an exceptional company devoted to principles of organizational excellence and, together, we hope to help many other companies on their continuous improvement journeys.”
About the Institute of Lean Management
The Institute of Lean Management (ILM), the leading Lean institute in Sri Lanka, introduces world-class best manufacturing practices and produces world-class manufacturing leaders, productivity specialists, Lean practitioners, TPM practitioners, Lean-certified HR professionals, certified TQM facilitators, Six Sigma practitioners, and change agents. More than 60,000 professionals have followed ILM public seminars, workshops, and in-house training related to Lean management, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), the Toyota Production System (TPS), and Six Sigma.
Established in 2009, ILM is the most recognized certification body for productivity and process improvement certification in Sri Lanka and has certified over 2500 industrial professionals as Lean and TPM practitioners. More than 500 organizations have invested in ILM services, including multinational companies that operate in Sri Lanka. ILM has partnered with Hirayama Corporation in Japan since 2015.
ILM faculty members conduct overseas programs on request in Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam, and also organize public seminars and workshops annually. ILM is the pioneer of organizer of the Lean Transformation Summit in Sri Lanka, with the first-ever Lean Transformation Summit held in November 2014.
About the Shingo Institute
The Shingo Institute administers the Shingo Prize, an award that recognizes organizations that demonstrate an exceptional culture of fostering continuous improvement. A program of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, the Shingo Institute is named after Japanese industrial engineer and Toyota adviser, Shigeo Shingo. Dr. Shingo distinguished himself as one of the world’s thought leaders in the concepts, systems, and improvement techniques that have become known as the Toyota Production System (TPS).
Drawing from Dr. Shingo’s teachings and years of experience working with organizations worldwide, the Shingo Institute developed the Shingo Model™, which is the basis for its educational offerings, including workshops, study tours, and conferences. Workshops are available in multiple languages through the Institute’s licensed affiliates, including ILM. For more information on workshops, affiliates, or to register to attend the Shingo Conference, please visit www.shingo.org.
Contact information:
Institute of Lean Management
Thilak Pushpakumara
Chief Executive Officer
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