Integrated Manufacturing Excellence Initiative

“To HUL, IMexI 2023 has not only provided a platform to validate our Manufacturing Excellence program and its implementation rigor but has also helped us assess our journey in Smart Manufacturing and solidify our safety fundamentals. Our HUL Amli site emerged as the winner across all industries, reaffirming our belief that with a strong culture of innovation, continuous improvement through regular assessments, cross-functional collaboration, and robust adoption of Industry Revolution 4.0, we can achieve competitive business results.”.

“We are actively working with our teams to enhance efficiency and competitiveness by adopting the Manufacturing Excellence framework. The partnership with Kaizen Hansei is crucial, aiding us in transforming the way we manage our internal processes. Feedback from the IMExI Assessment is helping our teams stay focused and drive better business results.”.

“Ninety hours of learning with Kaizen Hansei experts on critical topics such as Values, Vision, Mission, Innovation, Automation, Digitization, Smart, and Lighthouse Factory Transformation has been an incredibly enriching experience. It's evident that our plants recognize the importance of continuous improvement and value the expertise of Kaizen Hansei. Their insights and evaluations will undoubtedly be instrumental in the journey towards business and manufacturing transformation. This commitment to learning and development is crucial for any organization that wants to stay ahead in today's competitive world.”.

“The experience of the Manufacturing Excellence assessment was very satisfying, given the high standard of rigor. Practically every department or function was assessed, and the depth of the queries and observations, along with the verification of answers, was intensive to unearth the actual situation on the ground. It was a challenging yet rewarding experience, as it helped us confront reality and improve further.”.

“The IMexI 2023 Gold Medallion award is a significant recognition for us at Delphi - TVS Technologies manufacturing site located in Oragadam, Chennai. We take pride in it. The structured IMEXI Assessment methodology enabled us to introspect many of our processes, aiding us in our journey towards manufacturing excellence. Thanks to the IMexI team for their patience, in-depth site assessment, valuable inputs, and interactions for further improvements at Delphi-TVS.”.

“The shop floor based interactive assessment will work as a catalyst in our journey of operational excellence. This assessment is helpful to motivate and achieve excellence in a sustainable way. It is also expected from Kaizen Hansei team to build a best practice platform to learn from each other”.

“Very insightful from the perspective of what could be leveraged in order to stay competitive and constantly adapting towards operational excellence”

“IMexI is a contemporary, relevant & apt assessment program for the unit to evaluate itself and find improvement areas leading to a better performance in the assessment framework”

“More than the recognition, this has been a great learning journey. Kaizen Hansei excellence assessment is very well structured, focusing on continuous improvement in all areas of business. The audit brings in lot of rigor within our teams to do a quick health check, reflect and re-learn as we do in a typical PDCA cycle”

“This assessment framework & feedback report is not only the blueprint of our organization performance towards business and manufacturing transformations but also provides us the basis to prepare our roadmap to enhance innovation, increase customer satisfaction & employee involvement, improve our efficiency and product reliability leading to overall growth of the organization.”

“It was great learning as the assessors were senior lean resources from across multiple companies which benefited us. The overall quality of assessment helped us expedite our journey towards world class manufacturing. The assessment is conducted by professionals of repute who have enormous experience in having transformed and initiated a culture of continuous improvement.”

“The journey with IMexI showed where we stand in the excellence path. The assessment gave a big picture on areas to be improved. This has helped in identifying high potential projects which will take the organization to the next level in terms of operational efficiency.”

“We have experienced the real power of the excellence framework in delivering balanced set of results for all our key stakeholders.
The In-depth Assessment by IMexI team has helped the leadership team and all concerned to continuously evaluate our manufacturing processes/ business processes in a systematic/ holistic way”

“The IMexI concept and framework is unique. We could understand the adequacy and need for more focus across value chain. The evaluation includes Cultural Foundations, Effectiveness of direction setting, Leanness & Flexibility of operations including extended supply chain. Technology &Innovation get evaluated in line with Competitive Advantage.”

“IMexI Assessment by Kaizen Hansei is a prestigious platform giving us an opportunity to showcase our efforts in areas of Business Excellence. It further challenges our mindset to achieve more in order to build competitive advantage. This is definitely leading us to get Global Recognition.”

“Integrated Manufacturing excellence Initiative’s assessment by Kaizen Hansei was very meticulous, intensive and exciting. The assessment process created one more opportunity to validate and reflect the core strength of our organization in terms of People-Capabilities, Processes, Systems, Controls.”

“Yokohama Off-Highway Tires was assessed for our Business Excellence maturity over various maturity indicators. It was a gruelling assessment covering entire organisation.
We won’t stop till such time we reach the pinnacle of excellence and achieve our Vision & Mission”

“Assessment was conducted by an experienced panel of 3 assessors from M/S Kaizen Hansei, on-site spanning 3 days covering immediate site performance as well as long term manufacturing strategy, with multiple GEMBA.”

“The recognition is a testimony to our operational prowess. I commend the IMexI team and Kaizen Hansei for carrying out the comprehensive site assessment and supporting us in identifying and implementing sustainable continuous improvement programs at our operations.”

“IMexI assessment helps as dipstick to measure the current level of performance in manufacturing excellence journey. I am sure, the IMexI framework will certainly help the organizations to clearly identify the gaps in key performance parameters, comparable with the bench marking companies and guide them to achieve sustainable Business growth in a competitive environment”

“They make everyone involved in the assessment feel comfortable and at ease with the process. Their focus on business improvements means we gain a lot from the process”

“The Gemba focussed approach of IMexI makes it unique amongst all other excellence frameworks that I have witnessed as either assessor or assessee. The feedback with clear prioritization for different areas, and the radar comparison of system orientation of applicant with the aspirational organisation provides a good inference for future course of action. Hope the IMexI framework would steer the Indian Organization towards greater competitiveness.”

“I appreciate the IMexI assessment for their deep involvement and adopting a comprehensive framework which covers all the essential aspects of the Manufacturing excellence.
The evaluation process is based on objective data .CI Ideas recommended can be used as a roadmap to achieve manufacturing excellence.
This has a great benefit to my Organization and I believe it can be helpful for any business who are willing to achieve excellence and leadership position.”

“The unique and exciting assessment methodology of ImexI enables organisation to reflect on organisations drivers, enhancers, process excellence and direction setting. The IMexI framework helped us identifying the gaps and prepare the roadmap for the better and sustainable performance through systematisation…”

“We found IMexI assessment process more comprehensive and takes care to look at the business processes in its entirety. The linkage of the processes to the business results achieved is a pragmatic approach to see that the improvement initiatives stay focused and is centred around the sustainable growth objectives of the organisation. The experienced assessors’ comments and feedbacks especially “identifying projects to focus” are sources for us to prioritise improvement initiatives and we as a company benefited a lot from these. Hope Imexi will continue to maintain the highest standards set for the scoring pattern and make the recipients of the award feel really proud. Look forward to continued association with Kaizen Hansei”

“The Kaizen Hansei IMexI 2022 Gold Medallion is an outstanding achievement for our Sterlite Optical Fiber Manufacturing Facility, Shendra-Aurangabad. The structured site assessment has helped us to really improve & add value in our journey of excellence. Thanks to the IMexI team for such an in-depth site assessment.”