Host: NPO: Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology
The progress of visualization of Japanese production management can be summarized as in the following five stages. The first stage began from the visual control of manufacturing shop at Toyota as the self management tool. In the second stage, it was widely used as the tool of self management in the early period. In the third stage, it was evolved into the tool of CIM(Computer Integrated Management), and in the fourth stage as the tool of VCM(Value Chain Management). In the future, it is expected to be used as the tool of SRM (Social Responsibility Management).
