Global Production Network and Next Generations Production System in Japanese Company

这两年，我们举办了每月一次的学习会和两次全天的密集研讨会，走访了汽车厂、钢铁厂、IC厂、电气厂、人造纤维厂和零部件厂。我们的研究成果以书籍、研究论文、报告的形式出版。我们明确了1980年以来日本生产体系的特点：微电子技术的进步、产品过度多样化和小批量生产；技术的衰败需要继承。我们在一定程度上找到了面对巨型竞争的日本生产体系再造的方向和下一代生产体系的前景。我们也明白，未来的制度很难实现。因为现在的制造企业可以通过大批量生产来稳定管理，尽管它们必须有后大批量生产系统作为必要的部分。在汽车工业最新的三个工厂中，我们发现了劳动劳动和推进自动化的并存，实现了生产系统的现代化，改善了工作和环境，并建立了新的激励制度。在纤维和纺织行业，重要的是形成“作为工业区的竞争力(Santi-seisanryoku)”，增强总体竞争力。下一代的生产和网络系统仍然依赖于熟练工人，但他们正在消失。我们计划出版一本书来出版我们的成就。

These two years we held study-meetings about once a mouth and intensive allday workshops twice and visited to research and interview automobile works, iron and steel works, IC works, electric works, manmade-fiber works and parts works. We published our study achievements as a book, studypapers, workingpapers, reports.We made clear as characteristics of Japanese production system since 1980 following factors : progressing microelectronic technology, product over-diversification and small lot production ; necessity of succession of skill in spite of decay of it. We found to a certain extent the direction for re-making Japanese production system facing the mega-competition and the perspective of next generations production system. We also understand the future system is difficult to realize. Because current manufacturing companies can stabilize the management with their mass-production, although they must have post-mass production system as a neccessary part.In the three newest plants of the car industry we found co-existance of labor work and advancing automation, modure production sytem, improvement of work and its environment, and new incentive systems. In the fiber and textile industry it is important to form "competitiveness as a industrial district (santi-seisanryoku)" and strengthen total competitiveness. The next generation's production and network system still depens on skilled workers, but they are disappearing.We are planning to press a book to publish our achievements.