A Fundamental Positive Investigation into Japanese Seru Production Systems

Abstract A seru production system is an innovation in Japanese manufacture. However, until now almost reports about seru production system are from Japan and be not well known in the world because they were written in Japanese. It motivates us to make a fundamental positive investigation into Japanese manufacturers to establish a research platform where all data about seru production system are in and can be studied by researchers who are interesting on it. In this paper, first the consideration and method for establishing the database of seru production system be discussed in detail. Then a simple example is represented to show the utility and performance of our method. We also list up what should we do in the future.

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