PT Akebono Brake Astra Indonesia (AAIJ) has always been familiar with increasing their improvements in every activities that they’ve done in order to make significant changes. This is certainly in line with the Kaizen principle, which is to continuously make improvements or increase quality. This time, Toyota Manufacturers Club just held its improvement competition that’s also a festival called the 37^th Kaizen Festival.

This competition had several stages of assessment, consisting of treatise improvement document submission and Genba that also done with the judges in order to know directly the implementation of the previous assessment that the participants have made. After conducting these two stages, the competition continued with the remaining participants that had to do a presentation in one day and finally ended with an awarding ceremony on November 30, 2024.

AAIJ then won as 3^rd place in the Karakuri Stream Category that belongs to Mr. Wiwoko from Production 4, also with the best yell and costume.  And with those 2, AAIJ not only has shown its ability to develop Karakuri or the tool to increase time and labor efficiency, but also shown its creative side for the yells and costumes.