Learn the essence of precision casting management in Japan

Learn the essence of precision casting management in Japan

In Japan, companies do not have performance evaluations, but their performance improvement activities are the most, largest, and best in the world. Here, improvement activities refer to various activities that promote the improvement of corporate performance. Japanese people are good at grasping the essence of things: performance improvement must be gradually improved by continuously identifying, analyzing, and solving problems. Today, precision casting manufacturer Tianyao Metal will talk to you about the management essence of Japan that is worth learning from.

Because of this, there are many safety light systems in the workshops of precision casting enterprises in Japan, and usually the general manager's office also has a set of safety lights that can be seen. The function of this safety light is to pull down the safety light line and light up the safety light to pause the production line when employees discover quality issues. Any employee can pull the safety light system. As soon as the light is on, the alarm bell will sound, and the team leader will order to suspend production. Various engineers and management personnel will immediately rush to the site and grasp the actual situation. In Japan, it is common to encounter situations where there is not enough manpower and energy to search for problems. So they simply came up with a simple solution: to leave the problem nowhere to hide, perhaps the Japanese believe that searching is itself a waste. And once encountering problems, Japanese people are good at utilizing the power of teamwork, and everyone rushes to the scene to participate in analyzing and solving the problem.

When it comes to Japanese management tactics, there are several points that cannot be ignored:

1、 Performance improvement must be achieved through continuous identification, analysis, and problem-solving methods. Therefore, Japanese people choose to use the method of finding fault with all employees to completely expose problems, and then use collective wisdom and strength to analyze and solve them.

2、 Let people only do the right things and must do them right. Once the safety light is pulled or a button is pressed, the production line must stop production because it is necessary to produce products of qualified quality. Due to limited investment in human resources, they do not have many people to inspect, repair, or focus on substandard products.

3、 In order to do the right thing right, they only look for the right methods. Make every step and process of the work very detailed, and provide everyone with a detailed and comprehensive set of work instructions. In other words, human resource management mainly focuses on job analysis, which is how to do the right things with the right methods. Japanese companies generally adopt a lifetime employment system, and in the absence of layoffs, they cannot repeatedly recruit a large number of new employees. That is to say, after knowing the right thing, there is no way to choose the right person, so we can only find the right method.

4、 In order to ensure that everyone masters the correct way of doing things, they set up training centers on the production line. Learning in work, working after learning, and Japanese training can be truly a fusion of knowledge and action.

Japanese companies have created excellent craftsmanship that is comparable to German industry, thanks to their relentless pursuit of management excellence. "A Toyota car that can't be broken and a Volkswagen car that can't be repaired" is also a joke about products under two management modes. Learning the essence of Japanese management helps us better control quality and quality.

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