Shinka Management

What Shinka Management does

Shinka Management is a privately-held lean consulting and training firm headquartered in Wayville, Australia, that specializes in transferring Japanese lean manufacturing and Toyota Production System (TPS) know-how to enterprises globally across 70+ countries. The firm offers four integrated revenue streams: custom lean consulting engagements, scheduled lean training programs (including Lean Leadership and Lean Implementation Master Classes), 7-day Lean Japan Tours with factory visits and TPS seminars, and software sales of the OTRS10 video-based time and motion study tool, developed in conjunction with Toyota Motor Corporation, plus the OTRS+AI add-on powered by the Fujitsu AI engine and the Mobile OTRS iOS app. Its competitive differentiator is talent pedigree: senior consultants include former Toyota factory managers (notably Akinori Hyodo, former Factory Manager and Director of Toyota's HiAce final assembly plant) and ex-DENSO practitioners, lending the firm authentic Toyota Production System credibility that competitors cannot easily replicate.

The firm's proprietary Shinka Management Way (SMW) operational excellence framework structures client transformations through four phases (Alignment, Understanding, Improvement, Sustain), and its go-to-market combines enterprise field sales for custom consulting, scheduled open-enrollment training courses, event-driven demand generation through the #AskSensei webinar series (24+ sessions), and inbound interest from the multilingual website (English, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Italian). Documented enterprise clients span Airbus, Amazon, BHP, Toyota, Mitsubishi Motors, Shell, Qantas, Volvo, Saab, KPMG, EGA, and Seattle Children's Hospital, and the firm has 16 years of operating history. An Escorial (Argentina) case study reports lean maturity improving from 15% to 36% at the 25 de Mayo plant and from 19% to 33% at the Suipacha plant over 18 months, with 550 associates trained within six months and 31 Quality Circles presented in Q3-Q4 2024.

Name

Shinka Management

Legal name

Shinka Management

Website

https://shinkamanagement.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Shinka Management is a private Australian lean consulting firm that transfers Toyota Production System expertise to enterprises in 70+ countries via consulting engagements, training programs, Japan study tours, and co-developed OTRS10 time-study software.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Wayville

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Lean Consulting Services: Professional consulting engagements for implementing and sustaining lean culture within organizations, including diagnosis, deployment roadmap development, and practical implementation support.
2. Lean Training Programs: Scheduled open-registration training courses and customized training services including Lean Leadership Master Class and Lean Implementation Master Class, run both on-site and online.
3. Lean Japan Tours: Immersive 7-day study tours to Japan including company tours, TPS training, seminars, and cultural experiences, led by expert lean consultants with 16-year track record.
4. OTRS Software Sales and Support: Sales and support for OTRS10 video-based time and motion study software, Mobile OTRS app, and OTRS+AI software.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Shinka Management is a global lean consulting firm that transfers Japanese management know-how to organizations across more than 70 countries. It sells Lean Consulting services (diagnosis, roadmap, implementation support), Lean Training programs (Lean Leadership Master Class, Lean Implementation Master Class), 7-day Lean Japan Tours, and proprietary OTRS time study software (OTRS10, OTRS+AI, Mobile OTRS) co-developed with Toyota Motor Corporation.

Product overview

Shinka Management offers a portfolio of lean consulting services and software products. The core software offering consists of OTRS10 (video-based time and motion study software developed with Toyota Motor Corporation), complemented by OTRS+AI (Fujitsu AI engine-powered AI enhancement) and Mobile OTRS (iOS companion app). These software products support productivity improvement and work measurement. The service portfolio includes Lean Consulting (diagnosis, deployment roadmap, implementation support), Lean Training (master classes led by former Toyota managers), and Lean Japan Tours (7-day immersive study experiences in Japan).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• OTRS: Time and motion study software designed to help analyze and document standard work processes, leveraging Japanese industrial engineering and lean manufacturing principles.
• OTRS+AI
• Mobile OTRS
• #AskSensei

Products and services

• Lean Consulting Professional consulting engagement service for implementing and sustaining lean culture within organizations, including diagnosis, deployment roadmap development, and practical implementation support. Targeted at senior leadership and operational teams at enterprise organizations.
• Lean Training Scheduled open-registration training courses and customized training services covering Japanese lean methodologies, including the Lean Leadership Master Class and Lean Implementation Master Class, run on-site and online. Lean Leadership Master Class led by former Toyota factory manager Hyodo Sensei.
• Lean Japan Tour Immersive 7-day study tours to Japan including company factory visits, TPS training, seminars, and cultural experiences, led by expert lean consultants. Includes a dedicated Lean Healthcare Tour variant.
• OTRS10 Time Study Software Video-based time and motion study software designed to analyze and document standard work processes and achieve productivity improvement. Developed in conjunction with Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan; positioned as the gold standard in time study software. Available for PC.
• OTRS+AI Software AI-powered time study software that leverages the Fujitsu AI engine to enhance the video-based analysis capabilities of OTRS10 for work measurement and process improvement.
• Mobile OTRS App iOS mobile companion application to OTRS10 enabling time study data collection and analysis on mobile devices for shop-floor use.

Quantifiable outcome

• Lean maturity improvement from 15% to 36% (25 de Mayo plant) and 19% to 33% (Suipacha plant) over 18-month transformation
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers27 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Toyota Motor CorporationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerToyota Motor Corporation collaborated with Shinka Management to develop OTRS10 video-based time and motion study software. Former Toyota factory manager Akinori Hyodo serves as Senior Lean Consultant and hosts the #AskSensei webinar series. Toyota provides the foundational methodology and expertise for Shinka's lean consulting practice.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Kaizen Institute: Founded by Masaaki Imai, Kaizen Institute is a global lean/kaizen consulting and training firm offering management system transformations, kaizen workshops, and country-specific lean programs — directly comparable to Shinka's lean consulting, training, and methodology-transfer model.
• TBM Consulting Group: TBM is a lean and operational excellence consultancy that helps manufacturers and distributors improve productivity through lean management systems, similar to Shinka's enterprise lean transformation engagements.
• Gemba Academy: Gemba Academy provides online lean training, coaching, and consulting built around the Toyota Production System — directly overlapping with Shinka's Lean Leadership Master Class, online courses, and #AskSensei webinar curriculum.

Broad incumbents

• Simpler Business Transformation (IBM): Simpler Consulting pioneered lean consulting in healthcare and manufacturing before acquisition by IBM; it now operates as part of IBM Consulting, offering comparable lean transformation services backed by broader digital and technology capabilities.
• McKinsey & Company (Operations Practice): Global management consultancy with a large Operations practice that competes for lean/operational transformation mandates at large enterprises; competes with Shinka on the same end of the consulting market but at vastly greater scale.
• Boston Consulting Group (Operations & Manufacturing): BCG's Operations and Manufacturing practices deliver lean and operational excellence transformations to global manufacturers, often competing for the same Toyota/automotive and industrial accounts as Shinka.
• Deloitte Consulting (Operations Transformation): Deloitte's Operations Transformation practice offers lean and digital manufacturing consulting to global enterprises; serves many of the same large-customer segments (aerospace, automotive, healthcare) as Shinka.

Others

• Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI): Non-profit education and research organization advancing lean thinking worldwide; not a direct competitor but a parallel content/training authority whose lean educational materials and conferences shape the buyer landscape Shinka sells into.

Emerging players

• KaiNexus: Continuous improvement / lean management software platform that helps organizations capture and scale kaizen ideas and improvement projects — adjacent to OTRS as a software-enabled lean execution layer.
• Performance Solutions by Milliken (Milliken & Company): Performance Solutions by Milliken applies proprietary lean and continuous improvement methodologies developed inside Milliken to external clients in manufacturing; comparable in positioning to Shinka as a practitioner-led lean consultancy with embedded IP.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ShinkaMgmt
• Facebookfacebook.com/ShinkaManagement
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/shinka-management

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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