Global Production Network and Next Generations Production System in Japanese Company

近两年来，我们组织了近一个月一次的学习会和两次全天的集中研讨会，并对汽车厂、钢铁厂、集成电路厂、电子厂、人造纤维厂和零部件厂进行了调研和采访。我们以专著、研究论文、工作论文、报告等形式发表了研究成果，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;我们在一定程度上找到了面向大规模生产的日本生产制度的重构方向，竞争和下一代生产系统的前景。我们也理解未来的系统很难实现。现代制造企业虽然必须有后量产系统作为必要的组成部分，但可以通过大规模生产来稳定管理。在汽车工业的三个最新工厂中，我们发现人工劳动与先进的自动化、现代化的生产系统、工作及其环境的改善以及新的激励制度并存。在纤维纺织产业中，重要的是形成“产业区竞争力”，加强整体竞争力。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.