Abstract
This research found differences between production engineering processes utilized by automobile manufactures in Japan and America. This research sought to determine the importance, if any, of the inclusion of diagrams as a part of the process.
Through investigation and analysis of tacit and explicit knowledge and their respective uses by Toyota and Honda compared to automobile manufactures in America, significant differences were found to exist. Specifically, those optimal results were organic fashion. Such an approach is actively encouraged in Japan, allowing for continual innovation to occur. Comparatively, American automobile manufactures do not seem to support this type of relationship as much, thus stifling the creation of knowledge required for innovation to freely occur.
