MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE FOR FUTURE PRODUCTION PERSPECTIVE

Importance and Dilemma of Today’s Manufacturing

Vital Importance

• Basic means of human existence• Major contributor to the creation of

the wealth of a nation• Contributes to human happiness

and to world peace

Manufacturing Dilemma Today

1) Maturity and saturation of industrial products

2) De-industrialization or industrial hollowness

3) Unattractiveness of employment in manufacturing

4) Environmental effect

1) Proposal for Manufacturing Excellence

Expressing the enhancement condition of goods production

Eliminate: Hollowing production3k => kitanai (dirty), kitsui (hard

work) and kiken (dangerous)Environmental problem

2) Manufacturing Culture

Combination of conceptual ,intellectual activities and ideas with human relationship.

Also called restructuring of goods production (relate with human working condition)

Difference between: Manufacturing Excellence => Describe

enhancement and elegance of goods production Manufacturing Culture => Throw away Culture

(mass production, mass disposal, mass consumption)

3) Cultural/Civilised Production

Mode of human activity applicable to all over the world (Kimura, 1992)

Now, Cultural Production can mean manufacturing based upon modern science and technology

What Is Green Manufacturing?

• Green manufacturing is a method for manufacturing that minimizes waste and pollution. These goals are often achieved through product and process design.

Goal of Green Manufacturing

• The purpose is to support future generations by attaining sustainability by the means of preserving natural resources.

Obstacles

• Businesses have a responsibility of influence

• Prices of raw material and subsidized energy are essential

• Lack of availability and information

Obstacles (2 of 2)

• High-profile leadership• Training programs need more

support• Accessibility to loans from the

government• National cleaner production centers

need to be established

How It Works

1) Rethink product and process technology

2) Explore the market potential3) Supply goods and services4) Extend producer responsibility

How It Works (2 of 2)

1) Reduce energy consumption2) Integrate promotion3) Incorporate goals4) Promote development5) Integrate environmental costs (

Real World Example

• The need for fossil fuels has lead to

discoveries of different methods of

manufacturing that replace

renewable resources.

Real World Example

Petroleum.• Fossil fuel base for plastic.• Can be replaced by plants.

» Corn can be fermented into polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA).

» Final product is synthesized biologically and completely biodegradable.

• Fast food and packaging industry use polystyrene which has similar characteristics as PHA.

Real World Example – How It Works

Corn is grown and harvested

Transported to manufacturing plant

Glucose extracted and fermented

Cells are washed and spun in centrifuge

twice

Concentrated and dried into powder

Summary

• “Green production is a preventive strategy that aims at promoting the use and the development of cleaner, processes, products, and services”.

• “A key to more sustainable development is long-term structural changes in the way our economies work”.

Socially Appropriate Production as Ultimate

Manufacturing Excellence

Collapse of Production-Firstism

• Manufacturing activities commonly expect to consume huge amounts of natural resources.

• Manufacturing brought about mass production, mass consumption, and mass disposal.

• Resulting in great fear of complete exhaustion of natural resources and energy and destruction of Earth.

Socially Appropriate Manufacturing Through the Satisfaction-consciousness

Principle

Human are now largely responsible for environmental issues of sustaining our Earth.

Excessive production has to stop and profits must contribute to public welfare or humankind will no longer able to live.

Chinese said that ‘the man who realizes that he is satisfied is spiritually wealthy’

Satisfaction-consciousness Production/Consumption and Minimum

Disposal

• Traditional mass production must be replace with this satisfaction-conscious production.

• Only durable products are produces in amounts as small as society requires.

• Ultimate ‘manufacturing excellence’ should be vision of future management strategy of each individual manufacturing firm.

Manufacturing Ethics

• Satisfaction-conscious production is not easy, it will be attained by recognition of ‘manufacturing ethics’

Spirit of capitalism based upon the ethics of Protestantism in the West

Spirit of Buddhism/Confucianism in the Orient

• Latter idea has contributed to the economics and industrial developments of Asian countries but rate of adopting the ethical codes in the West is higher