品質工学の技術展開としてのあり方の研究

－トライデントからみる技展スタイルの研究－

抄録

Genichi Taguchi has compared a technology strategy to a battle strategy. As a strategy of this type, quality engineering must be applied in the research and development stage before product development begins. Although strategic planning precedes the actual fighting and tactics of a battle, it is the concrete deployment of the strategy that determines the winer. How that deployment is managed is as important as the strategy itself to the success of research and development. The author believes that in quality engineering as well, management,of organizational deployment is critical and the criteria for the Taguchi Award should be taken as a point of reference. This report focuses on "development of human resources" in those criteria. A report on the activities of Hiroshi Yano and others in the Hiroshima area was analyzed and elements of success were extracted from conventional Japanese ways of propagating technology,such as knowledge transfer and the motivation of engineers.