Some companies can benefit during the global economic crisis

Kaizen consultants from more than 20 different countries have been meeting this week in Switzerland at the Kaizen Institute’s annual country leaders meeting. Kaizen Institute businesses from all the corners of the world were represented – offering a unique opportunity to get a finger on the collective pulse of this global audience with first hand experience and contact within many different industries. An interesting common theme during the week was the country leaders’ optimistic outlook for their clients following the global economic crisis.

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Junet van Schalkwyk represented KAIZEN Institute New Zealand at the third KAIZEN Admin Meeting in Prague, Czech Republic. Administrators and IT employees from 12 countries including Portugal, Romania, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, France, Austria, Czech Republic, USA, Mexico and Italy were present at the meeting.

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Rieter Automotive Tilsonberg ON Canada

August 24-28^th saw the inaugural Advanced TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) college seminar hosted at Rieter Automotive-Tilsonberg.

This 4 day seminar was a combination of classroom theory combined with real-live Gemba experience as the participants applied their knowledge to one of the Rieter production lines.

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Danie Vermeulen from Kaizen Institute New Zealand joined fifteen other Kaizen Institute colleagues from Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, USA, Mexico, Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, India and Brazil to participate in an advanced TFM training course. The hands-on training was hosted by one of the laminated floor board plants of a well known forestry products company.  

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