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News Release from: Yellowpatter | Subject: Japanese terms
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 July 2006
Doing business is as easy as 'ichi, ni,
san'
Understanding English 'business speak' can be difficult enough, but when Japanese terms are being used routinely - particularly in relation to engineering processes - many business managers struggle
Understanding 'business speak' can be difficult enough in English, but when Japanese terms are being used routinely - particularly in relation to engineering processes - many business managers can struggle to keep up Specialist sheet-metal fabrication company Yellowpatter has come up with a handy guide to Japanese business terms to help other companies and managers cope with the increasingly exotic terminology
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 18 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Yellowpatter MD Stuart Bishop said: "We all know how embarrassing it can be when someone uses a term and everyone else seems to know what it means.
It can sometimes be difficult for managers to admit they don't know.
That's why we decided to include this guide to Japanese business terms on our new company brochure".
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The new Yellowpatter brochure gives details of the company's expertise in outsourced manufacturing of sheet-metal products.
It describes the services - such as design, manufacture and assembly - offered to its customers, as well as featuring some of the state-of-the-art equipment in which Yellowpatter has invested.
It complements an updated and completely redesigned company website.
Together the brochure and website underline the Yellowpatter commitment to clear communications with its customers.
Stuart Bishop explained: "Like using Japanese phrases in business meetings, too many companies seem determined to confuse and baffle their customers.
We take the opposite approach and are doing our best to communicate with our current and future customers in as clear an understandable a way as possible".
World-leading equipment has been installed in the company's new 40,000 sq ft facility in Dunstable, Bedfordshire - a GBP1.7million investment in this UK manufacturing capability.
Some of the Japanese terms which Yellowpatter has deciphered include: KAIZEN (= Continuous improvement): Continuous incremental improvement to create more value with less.
MUDA (= Waste): Any activity that consumes resources but creates no value.
DANTOTSU (= Benchmarking) Searching in order to be the best of the best.
CHAKU-CHAKU (= Load-load): A method of production flow for a single piece in which the operator proceeds from machine to machine taking the part from the previous operation and loading it into the next machine whilst taking the part just removed from that machine and loading it into the following one etc.
POKA-YOKE (= Mistake-proofing): A device or procedure to prevent a defect during order taking or manufacture - also called BAKA-YOKE.
More examples are included in the new Yellowpatter brochure.
(ichi, ni, san = one, two, three!).
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