| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 96 === ABSTRACT
Aluminum alloy wheel is an important functional part in automobile. In year 80s, aluminum alloy wheel industry in Taiwan used to have a period of great prosperity in business, which not only created a huge amount of foreign exchange, but also brought a plenty of employment opportunities to the local people in Taiwan. However, due to the emerging of competitors in Mainland China and the soaring of raw material price, aluminum alloy wheel industry in Taiwan has been gradually losing its brightness and has fallen into the adversity of struggling for survival.
Toyota Production System (TPS) was a revolutionary production management system developed by Mr. Oono, the former Vice President of Toyota Motor Company, 30 some years ago. This system has obtained excellent performance in car assembly field, and has been deemed as a brand-new production system with immeasurable potentiality.
TPS is constituted by two major poles – Just in Time (JIT) and Stop-Reject Automation (“Jidoka” in Japanese pronunciation), and is operated by a series of methods, such as Standardization in Operation, Stop-Reject Automation (Jidoka) in Equipments, Equalization in Production, Pull System in Flow…etc, which ordinary people have been familiar with. However, to fulfill the real spirit of TPS has to go with the activities of continuous improvement (Kaizen) and thorough elimination of waste (Muda). They are the essence of TPS.
This research, by reviewing the published papers, summed up the Key Successful Factors (KSF) of introducing TPS in different industries, and then used Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to build hierarchical structure and designed the questionnaire. Processing the questionnaire through 23 different wheel manufacturers in Taiwan, the results show as in the following:
The percentage of introducing TPS amid aluminum alloy wheel industry is relatively lower than other automotive component industries in Taiwan.
Capability of production management, engineering and technology are the most important aspects deemed by the interviewed companies. (the next two items by sequence are management capability of customers and suppliers, and organization and personnel.
When introducing TPS, aluminum alloy wheel industry in Taiwan paid less attention on education and training, which is disadvantageous to enhancement of competitiveness and continuation of development. For those enterprises who are willing to introduce TPS or who are in process of introducing TPS, in order to be successful, it is essential to have better schemes of education and awareness revolution for TPS.
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