Francisco Ocejo is leading Alfra Lean Advisors a Consulting firm with over 1,500 customers companies from 14 countries around the world. ALFRA Support companies Lean transformation from Strategic Planning, SCM, OPS, HR, Sales, Finance.

He has been learning, applying, and teaching the Toyota Production System in Canada, USA, Mexico, Latin America & Europe. He has taught and applied Lean from the senior management level to the operational levels closest to Gemba fro over 150 companies from  international corporations, to mid-size and small family businesses from diferent industry sectors such as: Service, Logistics, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronic, Bank, Ceramic, Education, Defense Electronic, Food & Beverage, Gas & Oil, Electric Manufacturing, and several manufacturing sectors. 

Francisco is a Toyota Kata Ambassador and Pioneer to spread the Toyota Kata in Mexico, he has been applying TK with his colleague Dr. Jeff  Liker ( author of the best seller the toyota Way) and many other Coaches in companies with the hieghest TPS people development.

For over 5 years he has been constantly trained by the Best Seller “Toyota Way (800 hrs),” the Ex President of JV Toyota China Mr Shingo (360 hrs), and various Toyota top Management ( + 1000 hrs).

His best expertise is in: Coaching Toyota Kata, Lean Manufacturing ,Lean Office, Lean Culture and Business Transformation.

He is an Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Monterrey Technical Institute. He has taught classes for students in over 15 Universities, lecturing in various Congresses in Mexico. Certified as Black Belt Six Sigma at  Institution of Industrial Engineers, and the Theory of Constraints and Thinking Process at the EGADE of the Monterrey Technical Institute.

Francisco is a former  Celestica leader & manager of the Lean Culture Transformation, with BlackBerry (RIM), Palm, HTC as Principals customers, with sales of over 1 billion dollars. This transformation involved over 5,000 people.

Lidia has experience on the Toyota Way, Toyota Kata, Lean Leadership, Gemba Training for the last 5 years, she had been trained by Francisco Ocejo, Alfra Consulting Director Manager; Jeffrey Liker, author of the international best-seller The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles; Ritshuo Shingo, who is Shigeo Shingo son and was the first president of JV Toyota China in 1998; Top Former Toyota Management. Lida Expertise is Lean Transformations under ALFRA Methodology: Hoshin Kanri, Daily KPI Management, Lean Operations, Lean Supply Chain, TPM, Problem Solving and Toyota Kata.

Lidia has trained more than 100 clients on Lean Manufacturing, including General Managers, Manufacturing engineer, Quality, Finance and Logistics. She also is Lean Office Instructor with experience on Logistics, Service company, Human Resources, Purchasing and Engineering change projects improvement.

Lidia´s principal customers and trainings:

Berry Global: Lean Transformation implementing Top Management to the each level closest to the Gemba in Quality, Opertions, Maintenance, Supply.

– Bitrón Automotive: Lean Transformation implementing Top Management to the each level closest to the Gemba in Quality, Opertions, Maintenance, Supply.

– Daimler Mercedes Benz, a bus assembly division; Lean Office and Toyota Kata training where we improve the engineering change applying Lean Office.

– San Mina, an Oil and Gas Company, Lean Office training and consulting, we reduce the total lead time from 10 to 5 days on the logistic chain including planning, purchasing, materials and engineering.

– DeAcero, wire division and steel. She participate on the DeAcero Production System, developing a continuous improvement system for logistic, purchasing, planning, shipping and production.

She has taught classes on Lean Manufacturing, Lean Logistics, Toyota Kata and Lean Office for different Universities as Tecnológico de Monterrey, UANL, UDEM, Universidad de Poza Rica, Universidad de Anáhuac, UPAEP.

Based on his broad experience, Gustavo is expert applying a suitable approach for Continuous Improvement needed on the different organizations from a Business results optic, becoming an effective Coach for Top Management and support for The Toyota Way roles.

Gustavo has learned The Toyota Way directly from its Author, Dr. Jeff Liker, and has applied it on Gemba as a Team with many Executives from Toyota specialized on General Management, TPM, Lean Mfg Tools, and Supply Chain. Gustavo has taught the Toyota Production System at all organizational levels and has applied over 50 companies of different sizes: Lean Leadership Systems (Hoshin Kanri, FMDS, and 8-Step Problem Solving), Toyota Kata for development, Supply Chain Management, TPM, Lean Manufacturing tools (5S’s, SW, SMED, Jidoka, Poka Yoke, Heijunka, JIT, etc.), and Lean Office approach. On Six Sigma, Gustavo as Master Black Belt has trained and certified +500 Black Belts, Green Belts, and Yellow Belts.

Gustavo has +20 years of experience on Continuous Improvement, Manufacturing, Process Engineering and Quality in large companies: Motor Wheel (Automotive), Kodak, Philips, Daltile, American Standard. He has +12 years of experience as Vice/President Staff as Continuous Improvement Director for American Standard México and Master Black Belt Champion for Daltile México. He has deployed programs that have achieved +$110 Million USD in savings with +3,000 projects on all departments: R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Quality, Logistics, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Energy. Over his 22 years experience, Gustavo has been exposed to many different organizations applying suitable Lean approaches on a variety of systems with diversity on leadership styles.

Master Degree Professor at Tec Milenio and Professor at ICAMI Business School. Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma lecture in México on various Universities and Forums.