It is not surprising that the slogan of halving costs has been proposed by Japanese companies and entrepreneurs. Many Japanese manufacturing companies have been shifting their production workshops overseas since the 1980s, especially in mainland China and Southeast Asian countries, which is considered a hedge against the gradually increasing labor costs in Japan at that time. Nevertheless, many categories of Japanese manufacturing companies still retain a considerable number of workshops and positions within their country, and the latter option has been proven to have a more long-term vision& Nbsp;
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It is not surprising that the slogan of halving costs has been proposed by Japanese companies and entrepreneurs. Many Japanese manufacturing companies have been shifting their production workshops overseas since the 1980s, especially in mainland China and Southeast Asian countries, which is considered a hedge against the gradually increasing labor costs in Japan at that time. Nevertheless, many categories of Japanese manufacturing companies still retain a considerable number of workshops and positions within their country, and the latter option has been proven to have a more long-term vision.
In fact, by the beginning of the 21st century, European countries, the United States, and Japan, which had been actively transferring manufacturing capacity in the past few decades, all recognized the drawbacks of this approach. The fundamental reason is that the production line is disconnected from the design process, and these two major links are more disconnected from marketing, making information transmission between different links very difficult. Through customer feedback in the marketing process, non quality issues with the product (such as improper or insufficient functional design, as well as over designed or redundant addition of non customer requirements) are identified, making it difficult to quickly provide feedback to the design and production line. This means that customer feedback, as the most important information intelligence for the enterprise, cannot be fully utilized. However, due to the separation of production and design, designers are unable to easily identify the problems exposed in production. If the former outputs information to the latter, they will face obstacles in the main road, and the enterprise may ultimately unknowingly launch defective products.
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In addition, outsourcing the manufacturing process will disrupt rather than enhance the intuitive understanding of products by enterprise designers and R&D personnel. How to process, assemble, and conduct inspections, these issues cannot be solved smoothly.
Hiroki Miki, a senior expert in the Japanese manufacturing industry and Chairman of the Cost Development Research Institute of Japan Co., Ltd., has been engaged in the development and research of agricultural machinery and other products for a long time. For many years, he has been immersed in lean product development and cost minimization development. Hiroyuki Miki believes that in order to reduce the cost of Japan's manufacturing industry, it is completely feasible in terms of technology, and to achieve this goal, Japan's domestic manufacturing industry should be revitalized. He affirmed the efforts of the US government and industry to accelerate the return of manufacturing after 2008, and clearly hoped that Japanese companies could promote the return of manufacturing capacity and employment opportunities.
Of course, not only manufacturing, there is no industry that does not want to reduce costs. In his book "Half Cost Reduction," Hiroki Miki pointed out that common cost reduction methods are "; Reduce the cost while retaining the original shape of the parts or assembly unitsThey are also more willing to invest heavily in acquiring the R&D departments or projects of other companies, or start-up companies, and do not truly favor the R&D department. In this situation, it is inevitable that people from all walks of life, including internal employees of manufacturing enterprises, will underestimate on-site managementIt is also impossible to do well in on-site skill improvement and cost reduction.