By Mary Ramadhani
THE Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in collaboration with the
Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) has equipped people from industrial
clusters with knowledge and skills in a bid to enhance productivity in
industries.
Through this
initiative, more than 90 people drawn from different industrial clusters
attended a sensitization seminar aimed at increasing competitiveness of
Tanzanian industries.
The Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in collaboration with the
Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) has been implementing the Project
on Strengthening Manufacturing Enterprises through Quality and
Productivity Improvement (KAIZEN).
The project has
gone hand in hand with the Cluster Development Support Project, through
the Small Industries Development Organization (SIDO).
According to a
statement provided by JICA, it reveals that the three parties of JICA,
MIT, and SIDO have combined the two projects to provide KAIZEN service
to Industrial Clusters for the purpose of disseminating its movement and
increasing competitiveness of the industries in the country.
"The parties have
organized sensitization seminars for the clusters aiming at introducing
three KAIZEN tools, namely '5S' (workplace organization by Sorting,
Setting in order, Shining, Standardizing, and Sustaining); 'Muda-dori'
(waste elimination), and 'Why-why analysis' (root-cause
identification)," read part of the statement.
Starting in Dodoma
and Morogoro, and conducted in small groups of people due to the novel
coronavirus, such seminars will also be rolled out to Mbeya region.
The seminar was
conducted by KAIZEN trainers from the Tanzania Kaizen Unit (TKU) of MIT,
SIDO, and the private sector, where different Industrial Clusters
attended it to acquire knowledge about KAIZEN techniques, reiterated the
statement.
It further revealed
that they will be followed up by in-depth training and on-site
consulting at a few companies selected from the cluster members as pilot
sites.
Morogoro is ahead
of other clusters and started accepting individual KAIZEN consulting
service at selected pilot companies from late June 2020, revealed the
statement.
KAIZEN which
originally means 'Improvement' is a management philosophy and knowhow
for continuous quality and productivity improvement of concerned
organizations, explained the statement.
It also elaborated
that it is also a human-oriented approach fostering teamwork, mindset
change, self-reliance, creativity and ingenuity to come up with ideas
for solutions to problems faced in the country.
The statement also
explained that, 'Industrial Cluster Development' is an approach which
aims to drive industrialization by taking advantage of clustering,
grouping geographically proximate and interconnected companies and
associated institutions in a particular field.
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