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\r\n\u3000December, 2006<\/span>\u3000Certified as Tamron Eco Partner<\/p>\r\n \u3000March, 2007<\/span>\u3000 Eco Stage Level 1 certified.<\/p>\r\n \u3000May, 2008<\/span>\u3000 Eco Stage Level 2 certified. (Authentication No.EST-197)<\/p>\r\n \u3000June, 2014<\/span>\u3000 Eco Stage Level 3 certified. (Authentication No.EST-197)<\/p>\r\n \u3000February, 2018<\/span>\u3000 Gave a lecture on our environmental management as a successful case at the Seminar held by Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers.(Shinjuku City Civic Hall)<\/p>\r\n \u3000November, 2020<\/span> \u3000We received TQM Achievement Recognition Award 2020 from The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers.<\/p>\r\n \u3000February, 2023<\/span>\u3000”TQM Seminar Introductory Course” TQM practice case presentation was held at the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers Building<\/p>\r\n \u3000February 2024<\/span> Presenting excellent examples at the Eco Stage ESG Management Lecture (Yayoi Auditorium Ichijo Hall, University of Tokyo)<\/p>\r\n\u3000July, 2025<\/span>\u3000 Eco Stage Level 4 certified. (Authentication No.EST-197)\r\n\r\n \r\n \u3000Since we started TQM activities in 2014, we have been developing TQM activities in which every employee participates, aiming to move up to Eco Stage 3. In 2019, we renewed our management vision and policies. Since then we have been working to improve them by conducting customer and employee satisfaction surveys to further strengthen the trust relationship between our customers and employees.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u3000Focusing on Quality, Cost, Delivery, Morality, Safety, Environment, and Human Resource Development required for “Monozukuri Company”, we are always raising the awareness of our employees so that they can work with sense of mission and promoting activities reflecting the characteristics of respective following items.<\/p>\r\n \r\n Quality<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n Improvement of Quality Assurance System and Promotion of New Technology Development to respond to higher quality requirements<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Through implementation of measures to prevent recurrence of defective products by accumulation of defect data for each process and monthly quality meetings.<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n 10% reduction in defects which is the most common in respective departments<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Improvement of quality by revising manuals and making a video showing quality standards for each operation<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Cost<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n Eliminating waste and raising cost consciousness among employees by improvement activities participated by all employees.<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Reduction of unnecessary costs by reviewing direct and indirect expenses<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Overall inventory reduction<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Delivery period<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n Management of On-time delivery rate and Quality of Business partners<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Morality<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n Enhancement of all employees’ environmental awareness through “My Declaration”<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Improvement of morale such as greetings, a spirit of service, and workplace beautification through “5S Activities”.<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n \u203b5S Activities: Workplace cleaning, Factory floor point strategy, patrol, toilet cleaning, no smoking, greeting campaign, etc.<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Respective workers perform preventive maintenance activities through maintaining equipment by themselves.<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Ensuring continuous proper workplace environment and Zero Accident by implementing factory patrols.<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Reduction of electricity costs through demand monitoring device and keeping them low.<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n Achieving and maintaining zero emissions by utilizing waste plastic recycling<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n \u30fbPromotion of education for Multi-skilled workers<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n \u30fbEstablishment of a system for in-house instructors<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Total Quality Management Activities Approaches to “Eco Stage” Certification & “Total Q…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohno-optical.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohno-optical.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohno-optical.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohno-optical.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohno-optical.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/kohno-optical.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/kohno-optical.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohno-optical.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Total Quality Management Activities<\/span><\/h4>\r\n
Features of Our TQM Activities<\/span><\/h4>\r\n
The characteristics of our Eco-stage activities:<\/h3>\r\n
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