America definitely has advantages in excavating "innovation points" that have clear commercial value and market acceptance, but when it comes to those "1.1 improvements"—the continuous polishing and optimization—the gap compared to China is obvious.
Most of us here are probably old enough to remember when Kaizen, the Japanese term for continuous improvement, was a hot topic. Japanese car manufacturers, especially Toyota, (and other Japanese manufacturers) were eating American manufacturers lunch. This was the explaination. A lot of American manufacturers even made a big deal about adopting it.
Of course, if you dig deeper, the originator of the whole concept was an American (W. Edwards Deming). But until the Japanese made spectacular use of his ideas, he had trouble getting a hearing in the U.S. From the sound of it, perhaps American manufacturers have lost the thread. Again.
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America definitely has advantages in excavating "innovation points" that have clear commercial value and market acceptance, but when it comes to those "1.1 improvements"—the continuous polishing and optimization—the gap compared to China is obvious.
Most of us here are probably old enough to remember when Kaizen, the Japanese term for continuous improvement, was a hot topic. Japanese car manufacturers, especially Toyota, (and other Japanese manufacturers) were eating American manufacturers lunch. This was the explaination. A lot of American manufacturers even made a big deal about adopting it.
Of course, if you dig deeper, the originator of the whole concept was an American (W. Edwards Deming). But until the Japanese made spectacular use of his ideas, he had trouble getting a hearing in the U.S. From the sound of it, perhaps American manufacturers have lost the thread. Again.
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