Reviews of Relations between Manufacturing and IT From Perspectives of the Management Technology(<Special Issue>Manufacturing and Information Technology)

Abstract

Because technological activities for manufacturing are inseparably related to IT, situations of the active use of IT for manufacturing are described comprehensively. An integration of IT capability and organizational capability could contribute to realize effective new products development, production management for lean operation of manufacturing, activation of organizational kaizen activities and so on. The essential requirement for capability of IT utilization in order to realize sustainable growth at manufacturing industries should be strength IT management capability not only IT capability through management technologies such as TQM, TPM and TPS.