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...them is a quality-control inspector. If they spot a faulty item in the production process, they are encouraged to shut down the whole assembly line to fix it. Pressure to improve quality reaches beyond the shop floor and often pits entire plants of competing companies like Hitachi and Sony in furious statistical battles to produce the lowest defect rates for products...
...their bosses to make the right decisions because there is a pervasive sense that both labor and management are working together. In Japanese companies, as a general rule, managers rise from within the corporate ranks, adding to the feeling of camaraderie and shared experience. Says Yoichi Takahashi, head of Hitachi's 70,000-strong labor union: "Everything depends on dialogue and trust. What is good for the company is good for the union. The workers know that their labor is what makes the company prosperous." Adds Noboru Yoshii, a senior adviser of Sony Corp.: "There is little opposition between...
...systems. RCA will immediately offer 100 programs that range from the movie Rocky to demonstrations on baby care narrated by Dr. Benjamin Spock. Finally, SelectaVision will be sold in 5,000 stores under the RCA label, and a compatible system is being marketed by Zenith, Sears, Radio Shack and Hitachi under their own brand names...
...pioneers of the small computer business will also soon face stiff competition from the Japanese, who will begin landing their first machines in the U.S. this spring. Commodore Founder Jack Tramiel warned a group of executives recently: "Gentlemen, the Japanese are coming." Representatives of Hitachi, Toshiba, Mitsubishi and NEC (Nippon Electric) have all paid calls on U.S. retailers to find out what products Americans want and how much they are prepared to pay. The Japanese are expected to enter the market with state-of-the-art machines that will be cheaper than competing American products. The first arrival is likely...
...producer, the director and two representatives from Hitachi Corp. of Japan, the documentary's sponsors, hold open interviews on Monday and Tuesday at the Freshman Union to select four undergraduates who would appeal to a Japanese audience as typical of the "American way," Jeanne A. Olivo, production manager for the production company, said yesterday...