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It is generally known that after the 1990s many Japanese firms had negative growth and established production bases overseas. As economic activity slowed, domestic production volumes, employee numbers, and maintenance fees all decreased. For certain industries, such as the process industry, this situation reduced the ability to manage “quality control”, “safety”, and “environmental preservation”. To create a practical PDCA model to improve production potential, we analyzed the recent difficulties of Japanese firms and concluded that many of their troubles are caused by four common problems. The troubles of Japanese firms stem from reduced production potential and human abilities. Both of these reductions are related to information links: facility production activity involves equipment and human activities, the combination of which produce four types of information links. Each of these four types of information links is a common cause of difficulties. To maintain high quality production and low cost operations in an environment containing multiple types of information links requires training facility staff with various specialized skills. To improve facility production, we provide a practical model of how to improve production potential based on an information link, and how to observe and check facility production accordingly. This approach can detect the risk associated with an information link and let facility staff gain skills. Finally, we considered how to proceed and implement the new checking system for the PDCA cycle, and after several trials, we identified “Priority” for implementing the PDCA model, and created a new checking model for the PDCA cycle-integrated system of “Priority”, “Layer structure”, and “Information link”. |
