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Employees' Relations Session |
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Our management adopts a top-down and bottom-up approach to communicate. The Vision, Mission and Strategic objectives are well cascaded to all |
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level of employees through various channel of communication. To engage employees' involvement and commitment by inviting them to participate in |
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contributing ideas through employees' relations session. This is well aligned with our organisation's business directions and objectives. |
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12-Nov-2007 |
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KETS won the Manufacturing Excellence(MAXA) Innovation Award. |
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In 2007, KETS participated in MAXA 2007. KETS demonstrated its manufacturing success and revealed(1) how it had leveraged Singapore's competitive |
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advantage to improve its competitiveness, (2) how it had integrated Singapore production into supply chain linking lower-cost facilities in the region to |
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offer low cost yet high quality manufacturing , and (3) how it had minimized waste in manufacturing to achieve long-term sustainability. |
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KETS was presented with the MAXA 2007 Innovation Award. |
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Behind KETS manufacturing success is a very passionate, dedicated and responsive workforce who is constantly innovating to excel. Moving forward, |
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KETS wishes to share its best practices with the other Kenwood plants, thus augmenting the overall manufacturing excellence of Kenwood to create |
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more value for its stakeholders. |
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KETS is proud to have won the award. The innovation award recognises KETS exemplary excellence in both Product & Process Innovation. |
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18-Sep-2007 |
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Business Partner Development Initiative |
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The manufacturing industry is facing tremendous pressure to generate innovative and higher value-added products and solutions at the highest quality, |
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in the shortest time and at the lowest cost, in order to compete effectively and assure survival in today’s increasingly demanding market place. |
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The challenge now is for the industry to climb up the value ladder and retain their competitive edge by equipping themselves with world-class |
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competencies to effectively collaborate, aggregate and manage global best-in-class manufacturing services. |
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One clear source of competitive advantage for manufacturing companies is to build operational excellence through embracing Six Sigma, delivering |
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products and services with customer and employee satisfaction, speed and at lower cost. |
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Six Sigma is a disciplined, systematic problem-solving approach for reducing variation in manufacturing and service processes from that of continual |
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Detection and Correction to one of Prevention. Therein, it produces breakthrough performance in business efficiencies leading to increased customer |
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and employee satisfaction and reducing business costs. Overtime, multiple Six Sigma projects can produce virtually defect-free performance! |
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To drive improved business efficiency, coming under the umbrella of Supply Chain Management, KETS embarked on the Business Partner Development |
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Initiative, embracing Six Sigma coupled with Lean Manufacturing techniques, to create a Win-Win and Share-Win strategy by assisting our business |
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partners in uplifting their operational performance in the areas of Productivity, Efficiency and Quality, thereby increasing overall business efficiencies |
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and competencies and reducing business costs. |
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Thus far, the Business Partner Development Program has been launched successfully for our suppliers and subcontractor located in China and |
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Indonesia. |
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13-Jul-2007 |
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KETS had passed the FM Audit conducted from 11th~13th Jul 2007 with no findings. The FM Auditors were impressed and statisfied with control |
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system in place at KETS. |
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28-Jun-2007 |
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Manufacturing Strategies exchange with McKinsey's Asia Leadership team in KETS. |
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KETS hosts a plant visit tour for Mckinsey’s Asia leadership team (a team of 15 partners). Mckinsey is well known for their knowledge in supply chain |
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and manufacturing expertise. Mckinsey has selected to visit us based on our manufacturing excellence (Maxa 2006 Finalists winner), good supply |
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chain management and the inspirational performance we have had in Singapore manufacturing sector. |
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We have good exchanges with, and gain insights from, them on strategic topics which include Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain strategies, |
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and Talent retention. |
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18-Jun-2007 |
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KETS annual Business Partners' Day. |
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KETS organize its annual Business Partners day in house. We view our suppliers as important business partners and that their performance is |
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instrumental to KETS performance. |
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The program was graced by our VIPs from Kenwood Corporation and as well as our valued global business partners. The attendance is |
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overwhelming and demonstrates the close partnering relationships we have had with our business partners. The activities include highlighting our |
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Kenwood's performance, direction and strategies, and delineating our KETS procurement strategies and KETS business partner development |
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initiatives. In the closing of the program, we showcase a business partner’s experience and the benefits they have gained in participating in our |
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business partner development initiative program. We encourage more companies to participate in our business partner development initiatives |
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so that more can be gained by both parties – “Share-Win” Strategy. |
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06-Jun-2007 , 12-Jun-2007 |
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Benchmarking and Best Practices exchange visit with Philips DAP. |
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In a step toward promoting Manufacturing innovation and excellence in Singapore, KETS and Philips DAP (both Maxa 2006 Finalists award winners) |
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jointly organize Benchmarking and Best Practices sharing visit tours to each other factories. Both factories benefited from the visits by sharing their |
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visions, innovations and best practices. |
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05-Jun-2007 |
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Lean 6
Sigma (Best in Class) Implementation in KETS. |
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6 Sigma, complemented by Lean Manufacturing concepts, is a proven disciplined approach for improving measurable results for every type of |
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businesses and processes. The common theme in this approach is to identify and eliminate sources of waste and activities that do not add value, |
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in order to create flow with maximum productivity, capacity, and throughput. |
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KETS objective to implement Lean 6 Sigma company wide is to use the traditional Sigma tools along with Lean strategies to create a high |
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performance manufacturing environment that facilitates continuous pursuit of excellence on a sustainable basis. |
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The idea of deploying 6 Sigma was first coined by Henry Lau in December 2006, after winning the Maxa finalist award and brainstorming on the |
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next level of actions that can sustain KETS excellence ambitions. |
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On 6th of May 2007, KETS sent its senior executive to attend a 3-days 6 Sigma Champion seminar with the objective to evaluate the viability of |
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successful 6 Sigma deployment in KETS. Then, a strategy roadmap (include, training, awareness, organization, goals and objectives, etc) |
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formulated to establish 6 Sigma in KETS and approved by Yoshimura MD for full scale implementation. |
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In May 2007, a group of 3 staff (handpicked from various departments) was assigned to undergo a 56 hour ‘6 Sigma Green Belt’ training course |
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conducted by PSB. Their mission is to establish 6 Sigma organization, lead 6 Sigma projects for improvement, and sustain 6 Sigma activities. |
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On 5th of June 2007, the 6 Sigma was officially launched in KETS and kicked off by a full day in-house 6 Sigma awareness and appreciation course |
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for all management staff. 2 projects were planned to be implemented in the Supply Chain management and Bintan manufacturing environment. |
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Clear Targets and Goals were established. |
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04-May-2007 |
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Research and Development Collaboration project on peripheral technologies with Nanyang Technological University(NTU). |
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KETS has finally signed a research collaboration on communication equipment peripheral technologies with Singapore Nanyang Technological |
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University (NTU) after several months of discussion and evaluation. This project marks the beginning of efforts by KETS to tap on Singapore’s |
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excellent R&D talent, facilities and environment to further its ambition in developing world class products. |
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30-Oct-2006 |
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KETS won the Manufacturing Excellence(MAXA) finalist award. |
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Achieving World Class Manufacturing Excellence, MAXA. |
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Maxa represents the highest global standard in manufacturing innovation and excellence. It is recognition of manufacturing excellence in Singapore |
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and the outstanding operations that are located in Singapore. The partners for this Maxa award are the Economic Development Board (EDB), |
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Mckinsey & Company and the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA). The award was the most prestigious one in Singapore and its criteria is measured |
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against 3 fronts: 1) Innovations in Manufacturing, 2) Operating systems – Manufacturing excellence, and 3) Sustainability. |
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KETS participated in this Maxa award in June 2006 and was awarded the top 6 Finalists in Nov 2007. |
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The process for the conduct of this award was very beneficial. Besides being recognized for its excellence, KETS has gained wide exposure to world |
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class practices. The in-depth diagnostics, conducted by the assessors to each short-listed candidate, has given insights on how World Class |
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companies strive to sustain their leadership in the industry, Industry’s best practices and World Class key performance benchmarks. |
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Not only must the company demonstrates strong operating system in terms of operational effectiveness, quality, safety, and costs, the company |
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must also demonstrate excellent Management infrastructure, Mindsets and Behaviors, Robust Financials, Strong Customer integration, and Capacity |
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for Continuous Innovation to sustain business. |
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KETS has made a strategic business roadmap in 1998 to achieve Leadership status in Manufacturing. Yoshimura MD was very committed and |
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determined to achieve this dream of becoming ‘Best in Manufacturing’ and thus decided to participate in the Maxa award. |
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Together with his highly motivated managers and staff, KETS has eventually being awarded the top 6 finalist. It is the only Japanese company in |
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Singapore to have won this prestigious award. The award was presented by the President of Singapore, His Excellency President Nathan, to our |
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MD, Mr. T Yoshimura. The success brings the greatest joy, unity and a fulfillment of a long visionary dream to KETS. Cheers! |
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