The Lean Immersion Week certificate program will cover the topics below using simulated exercises, pictorial examples, and case studies from around the world.

Lean Immersion Week

The Lean Immersion Week will certify successful participants in “Advanced Applied Studies in TPS”, a double certificate between San Diego State University and Honsha, and is open to all professionals in a leadership pathway. This edition of the Lean Immersion Week is being offered exclusively in Portuguese language and is open to all professionals in a leadership pathway.

The certificate program will cover the topics below using simulated exercises, pictorial examples, and case studies from around the world.

  1. Fundamentals of Lean Thinking – Improving organizational performance.
    • Standardized Work
    • PDCA: Root Cause Analysis
    • Kaizen Teian
    • Visual Workplace and 5S
    • Push versus Pull systems
    • Genba Observation: Muri, Mura, Muda
  2.  ​Value Stream Mapping and Management
  3. The Kaizen Teian Differential: The culture of continuous improvement.
  4. Hoshin Kanri: Policy deployment.
  5. Technical Visits: American companies in different maturity levels.
  6. Lean Leadership: Kata and the development of a lean leader.
  7. Lean 3D Simulation: Hands-on learning with interaction with Honsha senseis.

Want to Learn More?

Please contact Sammy Obara at: sobara@sdsu.edu or +1-408-316-3803.

Meet Your Program Sponsor

Sammy Obara

Sammy Obara learned and implemented the Toyota Production System (TPS) at Toyota facilities in Japan, Brazil, Venezuela, and the United States.

He has taught Lean to a multitude of consulting firms, educational organizations such as Harvard and Stanford, and humanitarian missions throughout Asia and Africa.

With nearly 40 years of Lean experience, Obara has helped more than 450 companies on-site. These include Lean projects in environments ranging from schools to hospitals, to the military and many others and in a variety of countries, including China, Lithuania, Poland, Indonesia, Brazil, Japan, Austria, the U.K., and the U.S.

Mastered in Technology Management, he also is a faculty member with the Lean Enterprise Institute and San Diego State University. Obara is a guest lecturer on lean for post-graduate classes at Stanford University, the University of Southern California, and Loyola Marymount University. He is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English and has a basic knowledge of Japanese.

Obara currently aids companies implementing lean through Honsha.org.

Meet Your Guest Instructors

Gerson Damiani

Gerson Damiani worked for Toyota Brazil for 16 years in many production divisions, including die-casting, heat treatment, machining, assembly, and press. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a graduate degree in business administration for engineers. Damiani applies his vast experience in Toyota Production System (TPS) and Quality Control Circles (QCC) to assist companies in South America, Portugal, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. He has helped enterprise organizations like Wells Fargo, M&M Mars, and Timberland as well as many others across different industries. At Toyota, he received intensive mentorship from his senseis to become a master trainer.

 

 

Darril Wilburn

While at Toyota, Darril Wilburn studied the Toyota Production System as a student of OMDD, Toyota’s internal Sensei group. He also developed and implemented the Toyota Way 2001 at Toyota’s largest manufacturing plant in North America, and worked with The Toyota Institute in Japan to implement the Toyota Business Practice (TBP), leading the global pilot of this program, as well as the North American Senior Executive sessions.

 

Now with Honsha, Wilburn has had the opportunity to work with over 100 companies in countries such as the United States, Brazil, Indonesia, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, and Lithuania, among others. Wilburn is also an active speaker, delivering presentations and keynote speeches on Lean Principles around the globe, including:

  • Harvard Business Review – Latin America, lecture series in Chile, Ecuador, and Mexico
  • Abu Dhabi Talent Conference
  • Washington State Government Lean Seminar
  • Lithuanian Prime Ministers Lean Conference
  • ISM University of Management and Economics, Vilnius, Lithuania

About Honsha

Honsha is a premier Lean Consulting group that has built a strong reputation by transforming companies using the TPS/Lean philosophy learned at Toyota. Based in San Diego and with offices in São Paulo, Brazil, and Tokyo, Japan, Honsha serves companies of all sizes and types, from small and midsize companies to Fortune 500 and major multinational corporations around the world.

For over two decades, Honsha has been implementing TPS/Lean around the world in a variety of industries, including automotive, food, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, healthcare, banking, insurance, and government. Honsha focuses on the purpose of TPS/Lean and the principles of Continuous Improvement and Respect before they look for ways to implement tools. This has allowed them to develop a strong and loyal customer base because this is the basis for Honsha customers to become self-reliant.

Honsha associates, as former Toyota team members, have been deeply exposed to the Toyota culture and its DNA. Because of this unique background, their understanding goes beyond the Lean Manufacturing tools learned by reading books. At Honsha, they have all worked it, lived it, and engrained it into their way of practicing and modeling TPS/Lean. Their clients consistently remind them that Honsha “sees things differently” - and this is their edge.