The Research on the Future Perspective and International Comparison of Automotive Production System Evolution and Innovation

在关注世界汽车产业的全球化竞争的今天，我们面临着一个新的阶段，即必须探讨在各种合并和联盟之后所发生的全球汽车重组的内容。在这一过程中，主要汽车制造商正在制定全球平台战略。与此同时，汽车制造商如何通过柔性生产来提高自身的产品价值，并对市场变化做出快速反应，已成为一个日益重要的问题。另一方面，由于零部件模块化战略在不断推进的环境战略和激烈的成本竞争下向更高层次发展，世界零部件产业的重组也在推进。在这种情况下，生产系统的进化和创新变得更加突出，因此，我们在这三年中一直在研究产品开发系统，供应商系统和人力资源管理，特别是汽车产品开发。我们正在进一步发展我们对整体架构概念的研究，它的演变和分歧，以及通过使用数字工程将产品开发系统与生产系统集成。我们还分析了随着零部件产业的全球化，经连公司的供应商体系从形式和结构到交易方式的变化。此外，我们还研究了生产制度创新与人力资源开发、就业流动性增加、再培训问题之间的关系。

Now as we focus on the global competition in the worldwide auto industry, we are confronted with a new stage in which we must probe into the contents of the global automotive reorganization that has taken place after the various consolidations and alliances. In this process there is the ongoing development of global platform strategies among the main automobile manufacturers. Together with this trend, it has become an increasingly important issue as to how automakers can enhance their hand value and respond speedily to changing market by flexible production.On the other hand due to the strategy of parts and components modularization developing to a higher level under the progressing environmental strategies and harsh cost competition, the reorganization of world component industry is also advancing. Under this situation, the evolution and innovation of the production system has become more eminent, therefore, we have been developing these three years of research on the product development system, supplier system, and human resource management, with special reference to automobile product development. We are developing further our research on the concept of integral architecture, its' evolution and divergence, and the integration of a product development system with a production system through the use of digital engineering. We have been also analyzing changes in the Keiretsu supplier system change from its form and structure to its dealings accompanying the globalization of the component industry. In addition we have been doing research on the relationships between production system innovation and human resource development, greater employment liquidity, and the retraining problem.