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(G) Company Evaluation System
(1) Qualification System for membership in Group-wide industries
Takenaka Corporation was established a qualification system for
membership into Chikuwa Association by investigation, selection, and
evaluation system to accept for member among about 10000 companies of
business relationship (The source: From the Takenaka Corporation Ltd. offer
material).
(2) Evaluation System for Company Constitution Improvement
To promote for self-propelled own constitution improvement by themselves
at corporation companies, Komatsu established this recognition system for the
mentioned Constitution Improvement encouragement in 1980. This system was
organized for persuading to have self-evaluated its own business performancfe
index, management index, and management system to stand objectively verify
its own level (rank) and identify own problem at the same time, then to settle on
company constitution improvement program, to proceed on by themselves, and
Komatsu was concentrated for planning of assistance, support and guides of
improvement to the cooperation company.
When these entrprise reaches at the level of “A” rank by the Company
Constitution Improvement Evaluation System, it is recommended to challenge
to the Komatsu Quality Control Award (Oura [16], Uchida [21], Tamura [22]).
(H) Application of Deming Prize and JQM
It was observed that Group-wide Quality Award recipient in each group member
company were eventually challenging to Deming Prize and JQM applicatication. Such
cases were observed in the Toyota group (from the Toyota prize to Deming Prize),
AISAN Industry (1992 from 1970), Toyoda Gosei (1985 from 1971), and the Tokai Rika
Electric Machine (1978 from 1976).
In the AISIN group concern, after AISIN Co., Ltd. and AISIN AW Co., Ltd. were
recognized as recipient, late Mr. Minoru Toyota Honored Counselor (Deming Prize
Individual Prize recipient in 1983) proposed "Let’s challenge for improving to the
management level of Deming Prize recipient", and 6 companies top management were
responding for TQM implementation under close preparation of scenario for processing.
And then, JQM recipient became supporter for guidance recently, the TQM
implementation proguram in small and medium-sized company began, and finally AW
Industry (1994) and Koritsu Industry (1994) were hornored for Deming Prize recipient
company.
In Komatsu, each plant were supporting for guidance of their member company of
Komatsu Midori Association, then, the Deming Prize does apply according to the
classification of each cooperation company.
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