Global Production Network and Next Generations Production System in Japanese Company

这两年来，我们每月召开一次学习会，两次全天密集的研讨会，并对汽车工厂、钢铁工厂、集成电路工厂、电力工厂、人造纤维工厂和零部件工厂进行了调研和采访。我们把我们的学习成果出版成书、学习论文、工作论文、报告。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、产品的过度多样化和小批量生产；尽管技能已经衰退，但仍有继承技能的必要。我们在一定程度上找到了面对巨大竞争的日本生产体系再造的方向和下一代生产体系的视角。我们也明白未来的制度是难以实现的。因为目前的制造企业虽然必须有后批量生产系统作为必要的组成部分，但可以通过批量生产来稳定经营。在汽车工业的三个最新工厂中，我们发现劳动工作与先进的自动化共存，现代化的生产系统，改善的工作及其环境，以及新的激励制度。在纤维和纺织工业中，形成“产业区竞争力”，加强综合竞争力是非常重要的。下一代的生产和网络系统仍然依赖于技术工人，但他们正在消失。我们正计划出版一本书来公布我们的成就。

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.