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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 29: The Indian Foundation for Quality Management (IFQM), a Section 8 not-for-profit firm devoted to embedding a world-class high quality tradition throughout India’s manufacturing and providers sectors, spearheaded a high-level {industry} delegation to Japan from April 20-24, 2026. Hosted by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE), the mission convened main CXOs, and high quality consultants to benchmark Japan’s globally famend practices in Total Quality Management (TQM), TPS, TPM, and Kaizen, with unique gemba entry to main firms together with Meidoh Co. Ltd., Yaskawa Electric Corporation, and Komatsu Ltd. Delegates skilled the Toyota Production System, provider high quality ecosystems, robotics-driven sensible manufacturing facility transformation, and reliability frameworks in heavy equipment. Delegates gained firsthand insights into the Toyota Production System, robotics pushed sensible manufacturing facility transformation, and frontline high quality cultures which have positioned Japanese enterprises as world benchmarks. The High – degree delegation benchmarked TQM, TPS, and Kaizen practices to strengthen management possession, improve provider capabilities, and advance Quality 4.0 for world competitiveness.
The program additionally featured classes and dialogues on totally different facets of Quality with distinguished Japanese leaders:
* Dr. Yoshinori Iizuka on the foundations of TQM and the Deming philosophy.* Mr. Shinichi Sasaki, former EVP of Toyota, on ‘Quality Next’ and the way forward for manufacturing excellence.* Dr. Masahiko Mori, President of DMG MORI, on enterprise management by means of precision and reliability.* Mr. Fumio Fukumura, Advisor at Iizuka Hospital, on making use of TQM in healthcare.* Mr. Osamu Nagata, Independent Board Member, Nishi-Nippon Railroad and former President of Toyota Motor Kyushu, on government decision-making and management accountability.
The delegation included senior leaders from Sankara Eye, Biocon Group, Tata Electronics, L&T Valves, Tata Steel, United Breweries, L.G. Balakrishnan & Bros, and IFQM, reflecting a cross-sectoral dedication to advancing India’s high quality agenda.
According to Mr. Soumitra Bhattacharya, CEO & Director, IFQM, ‘Unlike different nations that had a long time to construct their ecosystems, India has a 10-year window to rise and show its strategic indispensability to the world by means of uncompromising high quality. A examine mission like this one to JUSE, Japan helps compress the educational curve on how we will transfer the ‘Made in India’ label from a notion of cost-competitiveness to a world hallmark of high quality, moulded by belief and precision.’
This mission to Japan is a key a part of the annual itinerary at IFQM and its mandate to catalyze Indian companies to turn out to be globally revered and export-capable by studying from the historic high quality revolutions of countries like Japan. This go to aligns with JUSE internet hosting CEOs and CXOs for experiential studying and the IFQM delegation seeks to:
Strengthen Leadership Ownership: Reinforce the mannequin the place high quality is a private worth institutionalized on the board degree relatively than delegated to remoted departments.
Study Quality 4.0 and TQM: Benchmark the most recent evolutions in Total Quality Management and digital transformation to refine the ‘Indian Way’ for Business Excellence.
Scale MSME Supplier Clusters: Learn from the Japanese ‘cluster-based strategy’ to bridge functionality gaps within the MSME ecosystem, making certain small/mid-level suppliers can meet world requirements.
Building on the agency Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) already established between IFQM and JUSE, this go to goals to deepen a partnership that has already seen Japanese consultants contribute to India’s nationwide high quality agenda.
About IFQM
Instituted in September 2023, the Indian Foundation for Quality Management (IFQM) is a Section 8, not-for-profit, industry-led motion dedicated to catalysing Indian organisations to turn out to be globally aggressive and export-capable by means of Quality, Innovation, and Excellence. IFQM’s founding members embrace Biocon Group, Boeing, Larsen & Toubro, Motherson, Sun Pharma, Tata Sons, Tata Electronics, Tata Steel, and TVS Motor Company. IFQM has over 40 firms as member, together with Bosch, Siemens, Nestle, Titan, Tata Motors, Asian Paints, BIAL and others.
The IFQM Governing Council: Mr. N. Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons; Mr. Dilip Sanghvi, Executive Chairman, Sun Pharmaceuticals; Ms. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Executive Chairperson, Executive Chairperson – Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited; Mr. TV Narendran, CEO & MD, Tata Steel Limited; Mr. Okay.N. Radhakrishnan, Director & CEO, TVS Motor Co; Dr. Randhir Thakur, CEO & MD, Tata Electronics Pvt. Ltd; Mr. Salil Gupte, President, Boeing India & South Asia; Mr. SN Subrahmanyan, Chairman & MD, Larsen & Toubro; Mr. Venu Srinivasan, Chairman Emeritus, TVS Motor Co & Chairman, IFQM; Mr. Vivek Chaand Sehgal, Chairman, Motherson Group.
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