Development of educational program for production manager leading new perspectives on manufacturing technology

This paper proposes a basic concept of an educational system and shows the result of the development and trial courses of an educational program for manufacturing manager in leadership roles who wish to create new values in manufacturing technology. The basic concept combines an intelligent knowledge-based approach with the kaizen activity program in a framework of new value creation and comparative advantage models based on the ABC-G network (Academia, Business, Consultants, and Governmental officers). The new value creation model consists of a stakeholder and the characteristics of the value. The basic concept behind our research on competition is based on the concept of the symbiotic competition. The developing case of the program for manufacturing process managers employed by manufacturers of industrial machinery in the Hokuriku District of Japan, could be identified the new values of the stakeholders of ABC-G network.