Production Management
Online ISSN : 2186-6120
Print ISSN : 1341-528X
Volume 20, Issue 1
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Preface
Table of Contents
Refereed Research Papers
Research Papers
  • Junzo MASAMOTO, Shintaro KATSURA, Motohiko IGATA
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 11-16
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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  • Seigo MATSUNO, Shinya TAGAWA, Yasuo UCHIDA, Takao ITO
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 17-22
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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  • Masao Kuma
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 23-28
    Published: 2013
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  • -Research of Risk Management for Global Factory Installation Taking the Risk Consideration-
    Masatoshi Mori
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 29-34
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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  • Masayoshi Hasama, Yoshinori Kishikawa, Seigo Matsuno, Yasuo Uchida, Ta ...
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 35-40
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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  • Masao Kuma
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 41-46
    Published: 2013
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  • ―Shift Towards Service of the Manufacturing Industry―
    Hideaki IZUMI
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 47-52
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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     The industry of our country shifts to service industry. Shift toward Service of the manufacturing industry is advancing. When market(customer) buys a product, the market to expects the solution tothe problem of one's company. Repair and maintenance after the sale will become important to manufacturing industry in the future. Then service contents solving the problems of the customer will become most important in the future.

     In this paper the author suggests that one’s company must get predominance in QCD of the service to get predominance by competition in the business. The Q( Quality) of the service matches the expectation of the customer and then gives a customer satisfaction. The C(Cost) of the service provide at the price that a customer expects and then A company and the both sides of the customer make a profit. The D(Delivery) of the service perform quickly and surely. Service of the manufacturing industry will be becoming it faster more and more in the future. It is to give highly the QCD level of the service to keep competition predominance in such a business environment.

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  • Zhengqiang PAN, Hiroshi KUBO
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 53-58
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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     The product and the process architecture of the white LED (Light Emitting Diode) industry which the rapid market expansion follows were investigated and analyzed, and the following was clarified. The process architecture is a modular type although the product architecture of a white LED package is an integral type. Moreover, although the product architecture of a white LED light apparatus is a modular type, each class, such as, an LED package, a LED tip, and a sapphire substrate which are located in the upper stream side, is an integral type. From now on, the investigation and analysis of the organizational ability and industrial geography of Chinese LED manufacturing which is the world's largest country of production are added to the analysis result of the architecture of these white LED industries, and it will connect to the proposal of the international management strategy of white LED industry.

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  • Takashi IWAMOTO
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 59-64
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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     In recent years, system development companies are required to submit RFP by user companies, before receiving orders of system development. In the upper process of system development, we have some process such as RFP, feasibility study and requirement definition. I realize that these processes are not parted clearly and the staff obeyed system development has been really confused. The purpose of this research is to analyze why RFI, RFP and RFQ have been required since a few years ago, by mentioning the recent situation of system development, clarify the difference in RFI, RFP, RFQ, feasibility study and requirement definition and raise problems that may occur therein.

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  • Takashi IWAMOTO
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 65-70
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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     In recent years, before the enterprise system development orders, user companies are required to submit RFP to system development companies. After the submission of RFI, RFP, the RFQ is conducted and final system development companies are selected. Then, work such as feasibility study, requirements definition exists, but the authors are aware that clear isolation of working process of these has not been made, and we have confusion in the system development. It is an object of the present study to be brought about problems that may occur therein, and the difference of definition in feasibility study and requirements are clear.

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  • ―Experimental Market Analysis and Consideration for Model Framework―
    Takashi OGAWA
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 71-78
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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     Semiconductor silicon wafer is a key material for semiconductor device manufacturing and the demand trend has shown a steady growth over the last two decades with a periodical shift to the larger size. However, the market model, which is able to describe the unique demand trends for each wafer generation and predict the future wafer demand, has not been proposed yet. As a result, semiconductor industry still has a difficulty to make an effective investment decision and manufacturing plan for coming next generation wafers with accurate demand-forecasting process. Aiming to provide a solution for the industrial issue, we applied Logistic Growth Curve for semiconductor silicon wafer market and established the market models with estimates of the model parameters for each wafer generation trend by non-linear regression analysis. Based on the established market model, we also considered to develop the simulation framework to estimate the future wafer demand with the expectation by Monte Carlo method. The result showed that the established model could describe the actual demand profile well in “Expansion phase” of each wafer demand and the model framework has a potential to simulate the future demand as the probability distribution with assuming own business scenarios by individual analyst.

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  • Hong YAN, Mingyue QIU, Yu SONG, Fumio AKAGI
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 79-84
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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     The Dow 10 strategy consists of buying the ten highest yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the US stock market and rebalancing the portfolio annually. In this study we apply the Dow 10 strategy to the Taiwan stock market (we name it Taiwan D-10 Strategy) and analyze its performance based on data from 2003 through 2012.

     We propose here to buy the ten highest yielding stocks in Taiwan 50 Index and rebalance the portfolio annually. Taiwan D-10 strategy always had a higher accumulated return than Taiwan 50 Index. In year 2012, Taiwan D-10 strategy had highest accumulated returns with the value of 415.77 %, which is about 4 times of the return of 2003. On the contrary, Taiwan 50 Index line was steady in a lower level. The accumulated return of Taiwan 50 Index of 2012 year is only 164.87 %, which is about the same level with the data of 2003. Simulation results show that the Taiwan D-10 strategy is effective.

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  • Takashi IWAMOTO
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 85-90
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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     In the ICT industry, we have a serious shortage of the staff engaged in lower process and a surplus of that engaged in upper process. Although there are some ups and downs, the shortage of the upper process staff in the system development has continued for the past 20 years. The purpose of this research is to extract problems which the present ICT industry holds and focus on how the carrier path in an ICT engineer should be, based on 2010 talented-people white paper of (IPA).

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  • Takashi Kawakami, Tadaaki Niwa, Keiko Yukawa
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 91-96
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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     In an increasingly globalized world, many researchers have examined the creation of a network structure to overcome physical difficulties. However, most researchers have focused on small and homogeneous networks such as an industrial complex in these domains. This is because physical factors of management, such as the geographical distances between production bases, generally create certain difficulties, including increased transportation costs and communication failures. However, geographical distances would be advantageous for production industries if they could create considerable added value by overcoming these physical difficulties. In this study, we suggest a manufacturing network for generating added value from geographical distance from the viewpoint of regional management resources. On the basis of network framework discussed here, we examine a computer simulation and a case study of a manufacturing company that constructed a next-generation network. Thus, we simulate the most suitable productive agglomeration network to create added value. We discuss this network as a means of optimizing the strategy of the manufacturing industry and define an objective function that represents the degree of geographical differences. On the basis of the results of computer simulations and a business world case study, the simulation results proved that added value did not rise infinitely by merely increasing the links.

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  • Isao OKADA
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 97-102
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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     Recently, both of consumer and construction industry demand wide size tiles. They seek tiles which are fashionable and high quality. They want to use fine appearance tiles and tiles which are looked luxury. Before new technique which explaining in this paper, those are impossible and cannot reply for those demands.

     If construction industry uses wide size tiles, they have to consider new type tiles which never come off the wall. This point is so difficult and need high technique. Also we must care ecology and environment situation. Of course we must consider about global market.

     At first, describes problems of construction industry. Secondly, although difficulties, successes to find "GACHI LOCK" and “Striving Method” which completely new technique.

     This new method is able to use generals. This means that can use and be able to fix up easily.

     Point of this "GACHI LOCK" is able keep on wall safely. This "Striving Method" is able keep on floor high quality. Considering next stage, for global market, important point is branding. If branding can spread successfully, this wonder and supreme technique must appeal global market.

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  • Yoshitaka HAYASHI
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 103-108
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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     Japanese government operates promotion project for inbound travel. That calls Visit Japan Project. This project operates from 10 years ago. And declared that first target is 18 million foreign visitors by 2016, second target is 25 million foreign visitors by 2020, and final goal is 30 million foreign visitors for future. But, in 2012 was 8.36 million. So, in addition, government is targeting 10 million foreign visitors by end of year 2013. For this target, government announced that Japan must approach Southeast Asia market and Muslim market as additional promotion. Wealthy people in both countries of Malaysia and Indonesia will come more than one hundred million people in 2020. Therefore tourism industry shall approach to both countries. They need to acquire knowledge about halal, Islamic customs and religious conventions. Muslim doctrines not worship idols even for tourist. So visit course should be considerate and must prepare special arrange travel route for Muslim. We have to appeal that the correspondence be trusted from the countries of the Islamic world.

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  • Masakatsu MIYANO
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 109-114
    Published: 2013
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     A 3H, It is a thing of initials (Hajimete), change (Henkou), after a long time of (Hisashiburi) for the first time . As a rule of thumb , trouble or accident happened on the occasion 3H ( for the first time , change , long time ) , We understand that very few in the steady state . With the speeding up of the business and the advancement of society , the impact of accidents and other problems is becoming increasingly more and more serious . Instead of (corrective action) to prevent recurrence made through personal injury or economic burden, request to prevent (prophylactic treatment) is growing. It is easy and familiar simple , special technology investment required , 3H of prevention technology highly effective can participate anywhere , anytime , anyone is sure to become the savior of these .

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  • ―Report of field survey results of 2013 and 2012―
    Takashi ISHIJIMA
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 115-120
    Published: 2013
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     The environmental factors of IT business in Thailand and Vietnam , differentiated levels of economic development , the difference between the number of new graduates supply IT engineers . In Vietnam , for the number of new graduates supply IT engineers is high, thereby increasing the possibility of as offshore development centers . However, in Vietnam , up level of quality control of the software by the local human resources is an issue . On the other hand , Thailand has been economic development around the automotive industry , Japanese IT companies are providing IT services such as software development , CAD related services , help desk and operations management services . However, in Thailand , for supply of graduates IT engineers is small, it is not suitable as a system development base . However, in Thailand , the development of business models with a focus on IT-related services is expected . Therefore , Japanese IT companies , it is necessary to build a business model based on the characteristics of the human resources and IT market in the country of Southeast Asian countries , considering role-sharing between sites .

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Case Study
  • Senji SUZUKI
    2013Volume 20Issue 1 Pages 132-137
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: June 08, 2025
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     5S principle (Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain) and visualized management are important for corporate management. These would improve quality, delivery time and cost.

    Moreover, these lead also to human resources development, and their advantages are large.

    This paper introduces 5S principle and visualized management with company cases. I would like to propose the diagnostic technique of 5S as a tool which diagnoses 5S.

    This technique can be diagnosed according to 5S level of a company. The levels of 5S diagnosis are a basal level, a middle level, and three high-level steps. 5S diagnosis is measured by the evaluation point. Trends and challenges can be known. If 5S diagnosis is continued periodically, the true ability of its company can be known. Moreover, if 5S activity is carried out aiming at high level, the management contribution of the QCD can be improved.

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