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CONTACT: Mary Price
Shingo Institute
Phone: +1.435.760.0711
Email: mary.price@usu.edu

The Shingo Institute Welcomes ALFRA Lean Advisors 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. ALFRA Lean Advisors has just contracted to become the newest Shingo Licensed Affiliate.

Logan, Utah — The Shingo Institute, a program of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, has partnered with ALFRA Lean Advisors to become the Institute’s newest Shingo Licensed Affiliate. This partnership means that ALFRA 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 ALFRA 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 ALFRA Lean Advisors
ALFRA Lean Advisors serves clients all over the world with locations in several countries across the Americas and Europe. The ALFRA team has worked for and been trained by Toyota executives in the Toyota Way, which utilizes simple improvement tools and is an integral business philosophy of learning and improvement, where people and systems play key roles for long-term success.

ALFRA offers support to its customers along the Lean journey providing coaching and advisory services focused on developing, executing, improving, and maturing its organizational model to drive sustainable excellence. ALFRA also provides training programs tailored to organizational needs, as well as institutional education and certification backed by degrees from prestigious universities. In addition, ALFRA delivers a unique Lean Japan Tour that brings leaders together from around the world so they can live and learn the essence of kaizen directly at the gemba from Japanese leaders.


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 ALFRA. For more information on workshops, affiliates, or to register to attend the Shingo Conference, please visit www.shingo.org.


Contact information:
ALFRA Lean Advisors
Francisco Ocejo Gonzalez, President
francisco.ocejo@alfraleanadvisors.com
https://www.alfraleanadvisors.com