ADDIS ABABA – Apart from enhancing the productivity of domestic companies, Ethiopia’s Kaizen Excellence Center said it is providing training and consultancy services to Djibouti and Ghana.
The Center announced that Ethiopia is providing training, consultancy services in kaizen philosophy to third countries to enhance industrial efficiency and improve working conditions.
Approached by The Ethiopian Herald, Kaizen Excellence Center, Institutional Networking and Quality Assurance Sector Lead Executive Selamawit Solomon stated that the center is providing training and consultancy services to third countries such as Djibouti and Ghana.
“Apart from enhancing domestic industries productivity, changing and improving their working environment, we are promoting the kaizen philosophy that we have learned from Japan, to third nations,” she said.
Selamawit added that her center has planned to expand experiences to Rwanda and other African nations in the near future.
So far, the center has provided training for 1,500 service providers and industries, empowered about 200,000 employees and management thereby boost their problem solving skills and improving the companies’ quality by 15 percent, she expressed.
Since its inception, the Lead Executive disclosed that the kaizen center has saved about 5 billion Birr and applied wise management of expenses.
“We also provide consultancy services, research works to promulgate kaizen philosophy amongst domestic companies across the nation to enhance productivity, quality and delivery of the industries and service providing institutes,” Selamawit noted.
Accordingly, the Center trained companies’ senior management and employees to make them productive towards managing workers and running factory machines during production time, she mentioned.
Selamawit said the kaizen center provides support, monitors and builds the capacity of textile companies, chemical industries, and construction, health and education institutions in a sustainable manner.
In addition to the aforementioned establishments, the Center gives training to several public and private manufacturing companies and enterprises supported by its 69 competent and qualified trainers, according to the Lead Executive.
BY MISGANAW ASNAKE
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2024
