Comparison of mold manufacturing between China and Japan

A worker actually spent 20 minutes looking for a tool during working hours.

Who is the business? More than 90% of Japanese employees answered "employees," and over 90% of Chinese employees answered "owners."

Did the entrepreneur realize that the company is a human community, not a community of advanced equipment?

"Many enterprises are not inferior to the Japanese companies of the same scale in the introduction of equipment. The development goals of Changzhou's mold manufacturing should be high-end and precision."

Sitting in front of reporters, Dr. Pan Zhiren of the Business Department of Kobe University of Circulation Science in Japan, dressed in a light-colored T-shirt, was gentle and astute in thinking. He discussed the current situation and future of mold manufacturing in Changzhou.

Since 2004, Pan Zhiren spent four years studying the growth and development of the mold industry in Changzhou. In October last year, he published the book “Manufacturing Power of Chinese Enterprises”, which caused a sensation in the Japanese industry. A professor at Kobe University praised: “No Japanese scholar has so far analysed Chinese companies so profoundly.”

This time, Changzhou Mould Industry Association and the Yangtze River Delta Mould City invited Pan Zhiren to make a special trip to attend the 2008 Changzhou Mould Design Competition. Yesterday, the reporter had an exclusive interview with the Changzhou citizen's “multinational company and corporate management” doctor in his hotel.

In October 1988, Pan Zhiren had major management studies at Kansai University and Kobe University in Japan. In December 2004, after completing studies on how Japanese companies invest abroad and how Chinese companies went abroad, Pan Zhiren turned his sights to Changzhou, the cradle of the Chinese mold industry. “Changzhou is the epitome of Chinese manufacturing. For scholars, it is a very good research model."

With the help of Wang Jingcheng, general manager of Changzhou Jingjia Precision Mould Co., Ltd., Pan Zhiren used the participation observation method to deeply study a number of representative mold companies in Changzhou. "Every day and work with the workers to observe how they mold design and manufacturing, because I must write the book to speak with the facts." In 4 years, he has studied each company more than four times, each for a period of two weeks.

After four years of research and observation, Pan Zhiren believes that many mold companies in Changzhou have more problems to solve than Japanese companies. For example, internal management of enterprises is not strict. In Japan, the 5S management standard is the most basic requirement for each company. In China, there are not many SMEs that can truly meet the 5S standard. He once saw with his own eyes that one worker spent 20 minutes looking for a piece during working hours. tool. Internal management is not strict, which directly leads to low labor productivity, and the efficiency of enterprises does not increase. In addition, the staff's professionalism is not enough. Who is the business? - The same problem, more than 90% of Japanese employees answered "employee"; more than 90% of Chinese employees answered "boss." Differences in thinking and thinking have led to widespread job-hopping among domestic companies. It is difficult for employees to establish their own technology, and enterprises are restrained from development. The root cause is that "entrepreneurs do not realize that companies are human communities, not the community of advanced equipment."

Pan Zhiren believes that the development of the mold industry directly reflects the level of manufacturing in a country and a region. The industries in France and Japan are all derived from the support of a well-developed mold industry. Compared with Japan, the mold industry in Changzhou also has many advantages. “Changzhou companies are all young people, with energy and hope. In Japan's mold and die companies, the age of workers is mostly more than 50 years old, and there are few successors.” Pan Zhiren believes that in the future development, Changzhou mold industry should not use “ The most sophisticated machine tools produce lower-end molds, and they must climb high-end precision molds such as mobile phones and digital products, and at the same time extend the industrial chain. Mold enterprises must not only produce molds, but also produce end products to improve their profitability. At the same time, Changzhou's mold enterprises should speed up technical cooperation with foreign advanced enterprises, establish their own brands, and use Changzhou Science and Education City to cultivate high-end talents.

Pan Zhiren told reporters that he will help Changzhou, relying on the mold city of the Yangtze River Delta, introducing mold experts from Japan, setting up a platform for public technology and talent service, comprehensively upgrading the industry level of Changzhou molds, and promoting the development of Changzhou.

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