After serving as a director and head of research and development at Yamato Honeywell (now Azbil), he founded Torin Consulting. He has worked with over a dozen clients in industries such as industrial machinery, weighing and measuring instruments, electronic equipment, and automotive parts, providing services such as quality improvement, market defect forecasting, design quality improvement, experimental design, design review, and on-site guidance. His main publication is "The Easy-to-Understand Book on Problem Solving" (Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, 2014, sole author). He received the Quality Technology Award in 2016 for his peer-reviewed paper, "A Proposal for a Workshop to Promote the Dissemination and Acceptance of Awareness Regarding Near Misses and Anomalies on Production Lines." He gave a five-part series of lectures titled "Business Reform in Development, Production, and Quality Assurance through JMP" at JMP On Air Japan 2021. He has also given the following presentations at Quality Forum and DS Japan. - Proposal for a system to visualize organizational factors that induce work errors and promote improvement - Solving quality problems with JMP - Introduction of case studies of failure analysis and reliability prediction - Improving the efficiency of experiments and analyses with JMP - How to investigate quality problems with text mining - Discovering and solving quality problems with JMP - Improving the appeal of multivariate analysis by drilling down using graph builders and data filters - Predicting the occurrence of market defects through reliability prediction
