The ceremony took place today at the enlarged meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of agriculture and food of the Republic of Tatarstan on the theme "Results of work of agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Tatarstan for the 2018 and development objectives for 2019". Plant of the Holding company "AGROSILA" "Zainsk sugar" became the first enterprise in the global food industry to receive this mark. Silver level plant deserve with the results of 3.89 points.

Evaluation of the enterprise for global comparative analysis on the basis of the principles of the universal production system of Toyota (T-TPS) was held at the company President of the company "ToyotaEngineering Corporation" Toshihiro Yamada. In particular, it was evaluated the plant metrics such as increased working areas, documented standards, staff, material assets, equipment and quality. Today the company the following standards apply lean production: mapping the value stream (VSM), a system of universal equipment maintenance (TPM), 5S system - sort, order, cleanliness, standardization, self-self-control), quick changeovers of equipment – a system of SMED, continuous improvement – "Kaizen activities" card, "Kanban" method of error prevention - Poka-yoke principle JustInTime – "just in time", integrating quality into the processes and their standardization, as well as work with the stocks of materials and finished products, and operation of quality circles.

Lean manufacturing at the company began to introduce in 2013. To do this, "Zainsk sugar" signed a contract with a Japanese company ToyotaEngineeringCorporation — scientific unit of auto giant Toyota, whose experts today conducted staff training, consultation, and directly in manufacturing indicate losses, introducing tools and ways to exclude them. Employees of the plant, in turn, are actively involved in the development and implementation of improvements - Kaizen proposals to eliminate such production "loss", as the unused potential of employees. Kaizen proposals are agreed, considered by the Commission, and then implemented in practice. According to the mechanisms of lean production, each unit of the enterprise organized team meetings, which are held before the beginning of the working day. All the information is in plant-wide information center, where in the course of daily meetings conducted a detailed analysis of the operation of the plant over the past day and plan for the day. Heads of departments report format SQDCM-safety, environment, quality, execution, cost and corporate culture.