ANQ Congress Yokohama 2024 – Technical Visit

Asian Network for Quality (ANQ) Congress 2024 was held by Japanese Society for Quality Control (JSQC) in the Keio University, Yokohama, Japan from 16-20 Sep 2024. The congress theme was “Prosperity through Quality – Returning to Origins, Leaping into the Future”. The ANQ Congress 2024 – Technical Visit was arranged on 20^th Sep 2024. Minda and I selected to visit SB-Kawasumi and arrived the meeting place at Hiyoshi Campus. 

Minda took a photo with Ms. Asako Ikevchi who is secretary of Prof. Shu Yamada.

Prof. Watalu Yamamoto led us and explained the rule in the SB-Kawasumi that no photos inside the company and needed to side NDA. Because we visited their R&D laboratory.

Minda and I took a photo in the travel bus.

We arrived the SB-Kawasumi.

Minda and I took a photo in front of welcome display.

Firstly, the representative of SB-Kawasumi Laboratories, Inc. introduced the background of company and they started its operations on 1^st Oct 2021 through the integration of the medical device business and Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd. They introduced their quality activities including “Promotion of company-wide quality improvement”, “Quality Improvement activities – Big Data & FMEA” and “Quality Education”. Then we visited their office area and they promoted UN SDGs and Green concept with open environment.

Then we also visit laboratory. SB-Kawasumi had ISO 13485, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certificates. When we back, we took a photo with Mr. GE Tan, Mr. Johnson Tan and Prof. Shu Yamada. 

Finally, we went back to the meeting room and continued discussion. Before left, I presented HKSQ 35^th anniversary book and activities highlight to SB-Kawasumi team.

Lastly, we took a group photo in front of the company logo in the triangular designed environment.

After the technical visit, we had lunch in the Warehouse restaurant.

Prof. Watalu Yamamoto and Prof. Shu Yamada arranged a good Japanese food for us.

We sit with SQI team.

After lunch, we took a photo outside the restaurant.

Very nice weather and beautiful views.

At the end, we took the travel bus back to campus.

Reference:

ANQ website - https://anforq.org/index.php

ANQ 2024 - https://pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/anq2024  

JSQC - https://jsqc.org/

HKSQ - https://hksq.org/

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