OSAKA — Japanese farm equipment maker Kubota looks to copy Suzuki Motor’s playbook for expanding its global footprint: establish India as a production hub.
“The local staff have begun to engage in kaizen on their own,” Katsunori Asano, head of manufacturing at Indian subsidiary Escorts Kubota, said in December while giving a tour of a factory in India’s Haryana state. Kaizen is a Japanese term meaning “continuous improvement.”
