After having worked as a technician specialized in fusions at the Taiwanese railways in Taipei, at the end of the World War II, in 1945, he started to work at the Japan Management Association (JMA) in Tokyo, becoming a consultant focused on the improvement of factory management.
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The method spread out under the English denomination Single Minute Exchange of Die, abbreviated as SMED.
Shigeo Okumura | Shingo Takagi | Shingo Kunieda | Shingo Nishimura | Shigeo Shingo | Shigeo Nakajima | Shigeo Itoh |
The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence is awarded annually by the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, to companies around the globe that "achieve world-class operational excellence status." It was established in 1988 and is named in honor of Shigeo Shingo.