学術雑誌

<資料紹介>自動車部品Y社の海外生産拠点で活躍できる生産技術者, 保全要員の育成と技術移転

Education and training of manufacturing engineers and maintenance technicians capable of working effectively at overseas manufacturing bases and technology transfer at Y Co., Ltd., an automobile parts manufacturer

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法政大学キャリアデザイン学会

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2016-10

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Management globalization is beginning to take full effect, and more and more overseas manufacturing bases of Japanese manufacturers are establishing self-directedproduction systems, including systems fordeveloping products targeted at local markets. Maintaining and improving management, such as a high capacity utilization ratio, low defect rate, quick delivery and low costs, is essential, and educating and training local employees who understand Japanese manufacturing is required. To achieve this, systems forproviding Japanese engineers in a plannedmanner over the medium- and long-term mustbe established. This article examines career development of manufacturing engineers and maintenance technicians handling overseas operations at Y Co., Ltd., an automobile parts manufacturer. At Y Co., Ltd., the education and training for newly employed university graduates includes three months of classroom lectures, where all new employees attend lessons together, and three months of short-term overseas training. Manufacturing engineer trainees also undergo a basic training program where they learn designing, technical drawing and manufacturing processes as well as about materials and other matters for an additional six months. In the second year,while performing their assigned tasks, theylearn how to develop and write articles andtechnical reports concerning equipment, methods and processes from engineers, chiefengineers and section managers. Traineescomplete and present their articles at the end of the second year. If they successfully pass the article review, they are accepted as fullfledged engineers in the company. In the next stage, manufacturing engineers, starting from participating in developing amanufacturing line, learn to completely handle a single piece of equipment or process. At first, they only handle part of the process. Then, through on-the-job training (OJT), they become able to handle other parts of the process, such as those before and after the initial part, and broader tasks. It usually takes four or five years until a new employee becomes an experienced manufacturing engineer. The company believes that only employing university-educated manufacturing engineersweakens practical abilities. The company holds exams to select excellent industrial high school graduates, offers them specialist training at the in-company college with an 18-month program, which became a 1-year program from 2015, and educates them into manufacturing engineers. The company believes that manufacturingengineers' knowledge becomes genuine through solving problems in their actual tasks. In order to acquire genuine knowledge and develop their abilities, manufacturing engineers must struggle, experience and overcome difficulties. Developing and installing equipment at overseas bases and working abroad are, of course, part of their problem solving practice.

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