Japanese home appliance why is life and death?

And improve the corresponding English words of these two characters is what is generally likely to answer "improvement", but actually in English there is a word of "kaizen", corresponding to the mean, and the enterprise management and quality control when "kaizen" was also some more. "Kaizen" is from the Japanese pronunciation of "improvement" to come from the famous " Toyota production methods, the Toyota people say: "The so-called work is to improve" after World War II, Edward W. Edwards Deming modern production management techniques taught to the Japanese, the Japanese developed on the basis of a set of Japanese-style production management methods, the vertices of this management model is the "Toyota Production System," the development of the Toyota Motor Corporation has become the largest car manufacturer in the world is this mode of production do the best endorsement so "kaizen" along with the popular world.
"Improve" the essence of the daily and hourly negate past. Almost can use such a word to describe this "improvement": there is no "right" way of working, but past or existing work is definitely wrong, and will certainly be able to find a more correct way of working, the key is to find , so he began a tireless improve the process, make a vivid example: "and then twist a dry towel.
Dry towel always never twisted water does not come out that day, Japan's home appliance industry has encountered this day, from the seventies of the last century began sweeping the world of Japanese appliances now really is life and death crisis.
Panasonic, Sony and Sharp three appliances were 772.1 billion yen (about 9.65 billion U.S. dollars), 456.6 billion yen (U.S. $ 5.71 billion) and 376 billion yen (about $ 4.7 billion in March 2012 ), a huge deficit, The Panasonic deficit created the company's history and the highest deficit recorded in the same industry in Japan.
One year later, the three companies in trying to turn around under one's strength, if normal, then in March next year, the accounts should "V" shaped response, at least, should no longer deficit. But a few days before the company issued March 2013 accounts expected absolutely astonishing: the Sharp still a deficit of 450 billion yen, and Panasonic once again appeared a deficit of 770 billion yen, which is only forecast values, true accounts data breakthroughs in the last year, a new high not impossible.
Sony in the first half of this year, there have been a deficit of 40.1 billion yen (about U.S. $ 5 billion), but at this stage, Sony insists that they can system operator to achieve profitability appears black and full year. But in fact appears even to the last Sony black and does not mean they operating better than that Sharp or Panasonic, Sony day a little bit better just good financial sector gains at the same time operating , in fact, Sony's black and is likely to Bishop and Panasonic deficit more clearly expose a fact: Japan's home appliance industry has not "Gone" simply been fully sunk.
If the lack of market competitiveness of Japanese products, the Japanese certainly will be attributed to "the yen is too strong", in fact, not entirely so. Also strong yen, Japan's car manufacturers but also much better than the day of Japan's household electrical appliance enterprises, and home appliance products manufactured outside Japan and Japan's home appliance manufacturers are still less competitive on foreign markets in Japan, in fact, motionless mention the yen has been described where the problem lies.
Japanese has not really aware of their lack of effort that, but very stubborn to a kind of "Japan is number one," the self-confidence and pride, according to this "improvement" is from. Actually improved addition to the formation of the Toyota Kingdom, also formed unique to Japan has been dubbed the "Galapagos evolutionary Japan mobile phone. Although the Japanese mobile phone has not been competitive in the international market, but the Japanese shortly before or feel relish Japan phone flip is how well, the key is how the Spirit, until the iPhone to tell the Japanese, in fact, the phone can not flip Even the buttons are not.
Such instances has long been and Osaka had one specializing jukebox company with a stylus. It styluses production quality first in the world, accounting for 80% of the world market share, but the company is now no reason is very simple, because the jukebox has no one with a. The emergence of the CD, especially after the popularity of the CD, making records and gramophones only antique collectors interested in going to turn into even the best quality album can not compete with most ordinary CD player, let alone now iPod. Improve in the years of revolution useful, but can not do anything before the revolution.
The Japanese home appliance industry is facing the problem of the loss of the ability to innovate, the modular technology development of the Japanese home appliance enterprises have cited people take pride in the quality has not a daunting railings At this time there is no unique products and display no quality advantage of Japanese companies has no choice but to join the ranks of price competition, he exposed the factory buildings, the scale of production is too small drawback. If these problems can not be solved, complain that the yen is too strong is of no use.