company visits

Discover Japan's world-class manufacturing standards with an authentic "Gemba" experience. Gain valuable insights to enhance your company's lean strategy. Take advantage of this unparalleled opportunity to learn from the best.

Kyoto City provides “Tech Tour KYOTO” to facilitate business networking through curated visits and startup interactions. This tour helps participants to understand technology and business landscape in Kyoto.

The World Class Manufacturing training programme is now organised once a year, aligning with the EU-Japan Centre's calendar reorganisation.

On 27 March the four concerned parties: Marshal Office of Wielkopolska Region, Krotoszyn Municipality, Las Kalisz Ltd. Co., and Village Housewives’ Association in Kobierno, signed a letter of intent, thus making the first step in implementing the Japanese good practice of sewing small promotional gadgets in wild boar leather.

In November 2023, representatives of the Japanese company Ohchi Yamakujira from Misato, Japan, visited the company Las-Kalisz in Tomnice, Poland. Both companies specialize in game meat processing and are trying to strengthen trade cooperation with some promising results from this exchange.

To date, 668 people have joined 31 Lean in Europe visits to 33 companies, including a recent visit to Rational. Join us for the final two visits to Kostwein in Austria and to Toyota in France.

We have just 3 more Lean in Europe visits to go, to see how Japanese principles of production excellence are used in European facilities. December’s visit will be to RATIONAL – Germany’s Factory of the Year in 2022. Apply now.

A preview of July’s Lean in Europe visit to a machining company in Italy and a review of April’s Lean visit to a hospitality company in France.