ICEES partners Toyota Engineering Corporation to bring Lean capability to Sri Lanka

Innovation Centre for Enterprise Excellence Solutions (ICEES Global) recently partnered with Toyota Engineering Corporation (TEC) in Japan to bring lean management knowledge and capabilities to Sri Lanka, enabling individuals and organizations to learn from the pioneers in the industry.

ICEES Global will be initiating the first- ever Toyota Production System (TPS) Training Program on Lean Management in Sri Lanka on August 21 conducted by Sensei Tetsuo Arikawa, former head of production support at Toyota Motomichi plant in Nagoya.

Toyota Motor Corporation was the birthplace of lean management, initially known as Toyota Production System (TPS) and Toyota Management System (TMS). Founded in 2002, TEC consist of professionals who have years of hands-on exposure in implementing, improving, and sustaining these methodologies at Toyota.

Today, TEC is dedicated to spreading their expertise across the globe, and ICEES Global is the Partner and Corporate Member of TEC for Sri Lanka and the South Asian region.

ICEES Global facilitates numerous manufacturing and service-based organizations and professionals to continuously improve productivity and profitability through Lean Management, Six Sigma, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methodologies.

Headed by its directors Lapitha Gunasinghe and Asanka Henegedara, both of whom authored Sri Lanka’s first lean business novel titled ‘Lean Peraliya’, which garnered significant interest from the Sinhala-speaking business community. ICEES Global consists of a dynamic, well experienced team of lean transformation coaches, with over 10 decades of collective expertise locally and regionally.

ICEES actively engages in various industry sectors such as airlines, food & beverage, agriculture, porcelain, textile, and apparel among others with the objective of maximizing profitability, productivity, and minimizing operating costs whist activating internal teams for transforming organizational culture, all achieved by customized Lean concepts.

Due to the lack of understanding of these concepts, many fail to realize that lean management is a complete practical solution for their existing problems. Over the years, ICEES Global has trained over 500 business leaders on this.

ICEES Global has three strategic arms. ICEES Lean Academy provides globally recognized knowledge and skills on enterprise excellence and process innovation while ICEES Business Support assists businesses in their enterprise excellence journey, and ICEES R&D is dedicated to create new knowledge by actively keeping up with the fast-changing industry requirements such as Industry 4.0. Please visit www.iceesglobal.com for further information.