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VITAL-TPS INSTITUTEVITAL-TPSInstitute
Systemic Discipline, Living Operations.

VITAL-TPS INSTITUTE disciplines assembly lines that look perfect on paper but stall on the shop floor, using TPS, JIT and JIS backed by 45 years of hands-on experience.

Manifesto
Doing the same things and expecting different results is insanity.
Albert Einstein

Digital systems observe from the background and serve accounting; only people make the part flow. You cannot raise your efficiency by copying, by rote, methods the Japanese developed at great cost. That is exactly why the systems you deploy on the floor fail to hold and get rejected.

The world misread the success of the Far East. We openly oppose managing people like robots through digital data, software that excludes the human being, and complex systems that blind the operator experience. Waking the world from this illusion is our only mission.

We put the human being and intuitive shop floor experience back at the centre. We solve processes that look perfect on paper but stall on the floor, from order to delivery, with TPS, JIS and JIT, in four simple and understandable steps. By making the flow visible we bring the operator into the game immediately.

01 · Scope

What we do

We work with heavy industry, automotive suppliers and plants running high-variation assembly. We remove theoretical planning, blind MRP and ERP habits and improvement activity carried out without a defined purpose.

We build an operational ecosystem where parts meet at the right time and in the right sequence, and where the line runs to the rhythm of the floor.

02 · Clients

Who we work with

Plant managers, general managers, operations and production directors, lean transformation leaders and owners of manufacturing businesses.

Automotive supply, white goods, heavy industry, machinery manufacturing and complex assembly plants between 100 and 10.000 employees.

03 · Engagement

Three levels of engagement

Entry

Plant Diagnosis Day

1 day
  • One-day plant diagnosis with a three-page findings note and a priority list.
Mid

Assessment

10 days
  • Assessment and visual storyboard over ten days, including a strategic SWOT report.
Full

Transformation

27 days
  • Full transformation over twenty-seven days, covering awareness, holistic preparation, VITAL-TPS tools, Jishuken and Kanban Factory.
04 · Founder

Z. H. İbrahim Özalhas

Founder of VITAL-TPS INSTITUTE. Mechanical engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 1986. Uzel Makine Sanayii between 1986 and 2008. Consultant and trainer at the Lean Institute since 2014. Consulting and implementation in 30 companies.

05 · Contact

Get in touch

iozalhas@gmail.com
+90 532 460 38 63

Capacity is limited to two or three active plant transformation projects at any time.