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A 3 page paper discussing the application of Japanese manufacturing systems in the US. Japanese automakers have operated sites in the US for decades; the paper discusses the successes of Toyota and Aisin. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Are Japanese manufacturing systems appropriate for the US? Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Honda and other Japanese manufacturers believe so, as they have operated manufacturing sites within the US for years,
generally making only those changes that keep them on the right side of US labor law and in the good graces of labor unions such as the United Auto Workers
(UAW), the primary labor union associated with the automotive industry (Chappell, 2007). Other Japanese companies that have less direct association with the auto
industry in that they do not produce cars appear to be more "Japanese" in their approaches. Japanese systems appear to be quite appropriate for the US. Aisin
Aisin Automotive Casting, LLC is one of those Japanese companies. It opened a US site in London, Kentucky several years ago, and it opened
a second US site in 2004 in the hills of East Tennessee (Lyne, 2004). Both sites are located in areas where there have been few employment opportunities in the
past, and where there are high dropout rates among teens. The Tennessee site in Clinton - less than 50 miles from the Kentucky site and on the same Interstate
75 highway - was to have 400 employees by the end of 2007, gaining a huge coup for the mountain county where it is located.
At the Clinton plant, the factory operates 24 hours a day, but only in two shifts. Many production workers are required to work mandatory overtime that totals
12 hours a day, but employees have more breaks than US law requires. As is the case at Toyota and other production-line businesses, the line moves at the speed
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