Over six months, a team of TSSC engineers visited our packaging solutions sites and advised on ways they could be improved to become more efficient and sustainable. That was followed by a session for six Scope staff at the TSSC “Dojo” at Toyota’s head office. The ‘Dojo’ was an intensive training and simulation experience intended to instil the mentality of kaizen,” Stephen says.
“Six months, four site visits, many coffees, bundles of post-it notes and reams of butchers paper later, the project team have come away with amazing learnings on how to make our enterprises more efficient and productive,” he added.
So, what’s next for the packaging solutions team?
“Going forward we will have a dedicated “Toyota Champion” to work with site managers and staff to continue the Toyota way of thinking, and embed the structures and procedures learnt during the last six months,” Stephen says.
For anyone that works with the team now, you can see the changes in approach and how embedded the practices have become. What a great example of excelling together, we are excited to see what’s possible now with this new mindset.