Study for Development Directions and Real Application Cases of Korea Production System (KPS)

Abstract:

This research introduces KPS (Korea Production System), which is a type of manufacturing innovation methodology. The KPS has been developed by KPC (Korea Productivity Center), which is a special corporation with the objective of industrial productivity improvement. In this paper, we show theoretical validity of the KPS, in which there are 6 principles (People Involvement, Field Standardization, Continuous Innovation, Flexibility of Production, Commercialization of production Information) and thirty core activities based on the above 6 principles, and the KPS has a list of 140 assessment items for evaluations of the above core activities. In addition, we summarize some differentiations between the KPS and other manufacturing innovation methodologies. During the past three years, the KPS has been used in productivity innovation partnership program between major companies and SMEs (small and mediums-sized enterprises) in Korea. In this program, the KPS has been applied in production lines of various SMEs, which are almost cooperative firms of global and major companies such as Samsung elec., POSCO, LG elec. and so on. To show the effectiveness of the KPS, we introduce outcomes of some real implementation cases in the production lines of SMEs, finally.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 752-753)
• Pages: 1320-1332
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.752-753.1320
• Online since: April 2015
• Authors: Chong Man Kim, Jeong Cheol Lee, Seong Woo Choi*
• Keywords: Assessment, Core Activity, Innovation Methodology, Korea Production System, Korea Productivity Center, Principle

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