| Budget Amount *help |
¥12,740,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥3,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥4,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
A new analytical framework was established for manufacturing management, which gives special attention to rapidly developing areas such as theory of constraints, supply chain, new product development, and mass customization, through a thorough review of the existing literature and intensive interviews with manufacturing managers and executives on the key factors for high performance manufacturing (external environment, organization, human resource, continuous improvement, quality management, total preventive maintenance, information technology/information systems, just-in-time production and theory of constraints, supply chain management, technology development, new product development, manufacturing strategy, etc.). Based on the framework, questionnaires in English for 19 persons per plant were developed in collaboration with researchers in other nine industrialized countries, and the final version was translated into Japanese, which was followed by an extensive questionnaire survey i
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n each country. At the first phase of analysis, the reliability and validity of measurement scales to capture the key factors were tested for individual-level data of 36 manufacturing plants in Japan, and which question items should be employed to measure each construct was determined for the Japanese sample. Then, plant-level data were calculated by averaging the responses from those individuals working for the same company who answered the relevant question. Using the plant level data, basic statistics for each measurement scale were characterized, and super scales were constructed for organization, human resource, quality management, total preventive maintenance, information technology/information systems, just-in-time production and theory of constraints, supply chain, technology development, new product development, manufacturing strategy, and manufacturing performance. The relationships among these practices and performance were fully investigated by various statistical methods to determine the key success factors for Japanese manufacturers and the determinants for performance. Furthermore, these analyses were applied to other industrialized nations to find out common success factors for global manufacturing and clarify the impact of differential contextual factors on manufacturing performance. Less
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