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Japan, the world・s second largest economy is now in fact in dire straits! ... As of the current report from the Economists, Times, Financial Times and so on, the statement is still plausible. In this essay, I shall illustrate the Japanese economy and the success it has achieved from the early 70s to 80s, by gluing each individual jigsaw of the myths of the Japanese・s success, I shall depict for you a fascinating portrait of Lean Manufacturing, finally to conclude the impact of the efficient manufacturing techniques incorporate by the Japanese to its economy, and also the recession and whether or not we still should look and learn from our fellow Japanese associates with their state of the art manufacturing management.
To get the ball rolling, an introduction of the well known lean manufacturing pioneered by the Japanese is essential to reveal a piece of the jigsaws of why the Japanese manufacturing industry especially the automobiles firms took the lead when competing with the same market in America. ... The techniques are augmented by empowering small multi-disciplinary teams to identify and address local quality issues through continuous improvement activities (kaizen and kaikaku in Japanese term).
The JIT is a Japanese management philosophy which has been applied in practice since the early 1970s in many Japanese manufacturing organisations. ... The implementation of the kanban signal system may lead to some complex calculation in isolation from the rest of the supply chain, as the levels of these buffers may be time dependent. Another important issue with respect to these concepts is the determination of how to construct a viable supply chain from producer to consumer entities.
From the above, we can observe that Toyota was able to meet the increasing challenges for survival through an approach that focused on ．people・, ．plants・ and ．systems・. ...
Later on, during the 80・s, as US manufacturers made a concerted effort to catch up with the productivity gains achieved by Japanese firms in the previous decades, these techniques were imported and applied, sometimes in a pick and choose fashion with detrimental consequences.
Approximate Word count = 1548
Approximate Pages = 6.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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