1. Faculty of Business and Administration
Session 3: The innovation and their new support technologies for the productivity development
The Univ. of Bucharest
Visiting Professor
Faculty of Business and Administration
Shinji NARUO

2. Global competition Automobile production (Number of production Unit in the world)
1991
2001
2005
2007? 1 GM
Toyota 2
Ford 3
Ford/Matsuda 4 VW
Nissan/Renault 5
Nissan DC 6
Peugeot
DC Group 7
Honda
Hyundai 8
Fiat 9
Peugeot/Citro 10
Renault
Suzuki 11

3. Study for productivity and quality
“The Machine that changed the world”
By Womack.J., P., D. T.Jones, and D.Roos Rawson Associates, 1990
Research was conducted by IMVP (The International Motor Vehicle Program) in MIT. The research result says productivity comparison on 90 factories in 15 countries.
⇒ Japan : USA : Europe = 1: 0.67 : 0.48 .

4. Competition on “Productivity and Quality” Toyota system (Production performance)GM
Fleminham
Factory
TOYOTA
Takaoka Factory
NUMMI
(Toyota and GM joint Factory in USA)
Assemble
Time / car
31 hours
16 hours
19 hours
Problems / 100 car
135 45
Work space / car
8.1 sqf
4.8 sqf
7.0 sqf
Average inventory
2 weeks
2 hours
2 days
“The Machine that changed the world”　from chapter 4: Running the factory

5. Japanese Auto industry had achieved “Productivity” and “Quality” at the same time.
Toyota represents Japanese Production system. It was named “TPS (Toyota Production System)”.
TPS was explained like JIT (Just In Time), KANBAN system, 5 S, MUDA,,,.
It was translated “Lean Production” in USA, now it was widespread in the world.

6. Type of Innovation (Work sheet)
1.Product
Innovation
2.Process
3.Relational
4.Social system
Improvement
(Continuous change)
Better
Product with
Modification,
KAIZEN,
Kanban
System,
QA, QC
Circle, TQM,
Standard
Work,
Business
Partnership,
Teamwork,
Company,
Government,
NGO,NPO,
Dynamic jump
(Disconnect)
IC, LED,,,,
Invention on
science and
Technology,
PC, Mobile
Phone,
Business reform
JIT
Organization
Internet,
Broadband,
Internet on
Mobile

7. Innovation and Productivity (Discussion framework)
2.Process
3.Relation
4.Social system
Productivity
Technologies