A Study of High Performance Manufacturing Companies

研究期间的研究成果如下：a。国际联合问卷调查数据库建设：继续建设日本、德国、美国、英国、意大利、芬兰、瑞典、奥地利、韩国、西班牙等国大学研究人员的问卷调查数据库。目前已完成7个国家的备案。b.根据调查结果的讨论提取日本工厂的管理重点：我们对被调查工厂进行了工厂考察，并与被调查工厂的主要人员进行了讨论。主要议程是使细胞生产系统的过程合理化，并在各职能努力之间建立联系。研究成果：我们有三个研究重点。首先是日本工厂在过去10年里发生了怎样的变化。结果发现，他们的练习水平总体上下降了。但他们意识到了这一点，并试图加强地板的活动。二是如何保持质量的能力。结果发现，质量能力取决于从产品开发到车间活动的相关功能之间的沟通联系。第三是确定从产品开发到生产活动的联动属性。主要发现是新产品开发绩效与制造活动绩效呈正相关。以上研究成果均在国内外会议上发表，大部分发表在国内外期刊论文上。研究结果表明，在高绩效制造企业中，从开发到基层活动的实践高度联动，而前端规划的质量与有效联动的构建有关。对它的调查应该是最重要的研究议程之一。

Research results during the research period are as follows :a.The construction of the database of international joint questionnaire surveys : We have continued to construct the database of questionnaire surveys conducted by university researchers of Japan, Germany, the United States, UK, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Korea and Spain. At present the filing of seven countries was finished.b.The extraction of management focuses of the Japanese factories based on the discussion of survey results : We have made factory visits of the surveyed ones and discussions with the main staffs of them. Main agenda are the rationalization of processes by the cell production system and the construction of linkages among functional effortsc.Research outcomes : We had three research focuses. The first is how Japanese factories have changed during past 10 years. The finding was their practice levels went down on the plant floor in general. But they become aware of it and try to strengthen the floor activity. The second is how the capability of quality is maintained. The outcome finding is the capability of quality depends on the communication linkage between involved functions from product development to floor activities. The third is to identify the linkage property from product development to manufacturing activities on the floor. The main finding was the performance of new product development is positively correlated with the performance of manufacturing activities. All results above were presented at conferences at domestic and international conferences and most of them were published in domestic and international journal papers.The research results indicate to us that the high linkage of practices from development to floor activities holds in high performance manufacturing companies and the quality of front-end planning is related to the construction of the effective linkage. The inquiry into it should be one of most important research agenda.