Tatsuya Kato

Tatsuya Kato is a managing officer at Panasonic. Tatsuya has previously worked as a consultant at Abeam Consulting and an industrial engineer at Bridestone.

As a consultant at Abeam Consulting, Kato built the Production module and control for a food company, chemistry and cosmetics, and chemistry. Tatsuya worked closely with the customer to build SAP applications and anticipated the business needs to create Overview Design and Detailed Design with developer. Kato also created the test plan to ensure customer requirements and was assigned as a maintenance consultant to assist the customer after the start-up.

At Bridestone, Kato started as an industrial engineer. Tatsuya was trained to be a professional IE for the first half of the year and learned the new production system named 1/N and full automation line. Kato worked as the only IE to examine all the processes of the factory as a Project leader of all the process. Tatsuya achieved a 5% increase of the productivity of entire factory, improved one bottle to 12.5% (24Hr -> 21Hr/day) make a room to do the preventive maintenance. Kato analyzed the data on the floor with kaizen and standardized SOPs and video work instructions. Tatsuya also created the layout proposal to all the stake holders. OEE was 85%.

They are on a team with Sadaharu Ukon - Vice President, Yuichi Inokawa - Managing Officer, and Akira Sakakibara - VP, Lifestyle Updates Business Division. Tatsuya Kato reports to Masaharu Michiura, CEO, Life Solutions Company.