The Impact of IT Technology on the Quality Management Organization in Japan

The goal of this paper is to clarify the impact on enterprise organizations and inter company relationship in Japanese assembly type of manufactures to arise in the course of the spread of IT technology. Competitive advantage of the Japanese manufacturing industry which is strengths in technology that are close to the production site has been attributed to change the paradigm of manufacturing and to minimize cost increases, while carrying out execution of the process of moving into the high-end market segment. However, with rapid progress of overseas production and development of information technology in recent years, the role of on-site adhesion type technology has been reduced.Eventually the competitive advantage of “being budget prices at high quality” or “conformance quality” of Japanese products is being lost. Moreover, it was felt that excessive quality by “KAIZEN” as an improvement of continuous innovation, profitability has gone up. In a society of mature market, consumer needs are diversified. Economy advances to software oriented and the trend towards service economy.Today, quality is no longer the first priority for consumers. The global market has enabled the selection of the optimal supplier or supply partner. Being extremely efficient technique of the conventional quality control produces a risk of falling into over-quality. Society's as a whole consumption and the relation of production change a lot in the computerized society. For adoption of this, the organization that can manage it is indispensable to construct where consumers and manufactures can share information back and forth.