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Chapter 2
Management Tasks
of Manufacturing
Companies Shifting to
Global Production
e top priority of the industrial eld today is the new deployment of global mar-
keting in order to survive the era of global quality competition. e pressing man-
agement issue, particularly for Japanese manufacturers, to enable survival in the
global market is worldwide uniform quality and production at optimum locations,
which is a prerequisite for successful global production. It is essential to realize
manufacturing that gives top priority to customers with good quality, cost, and
delivery (QCD) in a rapidly changing technical environment.
2.1 Progress of ...