About Makigami.Info
The Site – The organization – The Autor
Why?
“To Add Quality of Life”
How?
“By Learning and Teaching – By Searching and Guiding”
What?
“Providing Principles, Guidelines and Tools to create Value and Eliminate Losses”
Makigami.Info
The Makigami.info Website is designed and written by Arno Koch and proudly supported by Makigami BV, offices in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Sources of Knowledge
I had the privilege and honor to learn from the best teachers a student can wish. It is my obligation to them, to pass on the foundation they gave me.
My students taught me what needs to be teached.
Steven Blom – COO Fujifilm
Steven brought TPM and Monozukuri to Europe. He is my Sensei since 1992
Seiichi Nakajima – Founding Father of TPM & OEE
Nakajima-San taught me about TPM in 1999-2006 and challenged me to enhance the 7th pillar: Office TPM
Isao Okumura – Inventor of Makigami
Okumura-san taught me his concept of Makigami in 2006
Norman Bodek – Godfather of Lean
Norman was the founder of Productivity Press (USA) where I first met him in 1998. He keeps crossing my path eversince and taught me the ‘Harada’ method.
Masaaki Imai – Kaizen
Mr. Imai we all know from his books about Kaizen. He is the founder of Kaizen Institute
Dr. Horst Grothus – TPM & Maintenance expert
Mr. Grothus was a great inspiration for his concepts of root-cause analyses and the value of TPM
Trained – Supported:
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All content of this site is the intellectual property of it’s autor; Arno Koch. It is written with the intent to help you in your effort for improvements, based on long years of experience and his best knowledge. However his opinions, statements, conclusions and guidelines are his personal view. When you are in the Shu stage (ShuHaRi): Do as it says and learn from it. Are you in the Ha stage: Question it until you really understand. Only then, go to the Ri stage and try to improve it. You are explicitly invited to question and challenge his learnings until you are able to do it better.
This Website is designed and written by Arno Koch and proudly supported by Makigami BV in the Netherlands.