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－　　－28Koichi MURATAAssociate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and ManagementKoichi Murata is an associate professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University. He received his Doctorate of Engineering from Waseda University. Dr. Murata previously worked in industry as an industrial engineer at the home factory of Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., which is a global leader mainly in the manufacturing of ceramic passive electronic components. His research interests include operations and production management, kaizen, lean management, visual management, technology transfer, knowledge management, and others. Dr. Murata has published articles in international academic journals such as International Journal of Production Research, Sustainability, Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan, and others. He was interviewed for Associated Press News last year about the prospects for kaizen in digital industry.Research Achievements1)“Analyzing Environmental Continuous Improvement for Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Focusing on Its Performance and Information Disclosure”, Sustainability, Vol. 8, No. 12, 16 pages, doi:10.3390/su8121256 published on Dec. 2, 2016.2)“A Study on the Performance Evaluation of the Visual Management Case-base: Development of an In-tegrated Model by Quantification Theory Category III and AHP”, International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 380–394, Jan. 2013.3)“A Study on Construction of Kaizen Case-base and Its Utilization: A Case of Visual Management in Fabrication and Assembly Shop-floors”, International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), Vol. 48, No. 24, pp. 7265–7287, Dec. 2010.4)“Development of Kaizen Case-base for Effective Technology Transfer: A Case of Visual Management Technology”, International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), Vol. 48, No. 16, pp. 4901–4917, Aug. 2010.5)“An Evaluation of Factory Performance Utilizinged KPI/KAI with Data Envelopment Analysis”, Jour-nal of the Operations Research Society of Japan (JORSJ), Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 204–220, Jun. 2009.Research ResultsFig.1 Framework for Kaizen case transfer Fig.2 Framework for KAI/KPI database utilization