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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Alarming ‘Canon revolution’ A shocking revolution in production methods A production line connected by a conveyor belt, workers have been fixed in a specific position, specify the installation or the instrumentation in some parts, the last to form a complete product. This is something we are very familiar with modern production methods. Its biggest advantage is that each worker had been fixed on a particular aspect of the production line, but simply repeated in a complete product installation or placement of certain components. ‘Specialization’ greatly improved operational efficiency. Now, this mode of production had been severe challenges. In 1998, when Japan’s Canon Inc. of certain products (such as color copiers, digital cameras, etc.) production from overseas back to Japan, the production of non-belt-style approach, a revolution in the mode of production began. The most important is that it foreshadowed the future of a new enterprise and social development in the future. ‘Canon revolution’, is fundamentally different from the conveyor belt-style production revolution. In this mode of production, the workers are not fixed in one position, simply repeat the installation or insertion of certain components, but in the same location on the assembly of a fully integrated product. In this mode of production, the workers who can assemble their own needs and to get experience in the assembly and experience, select, adjust and improve the assembly operation, instead of in a mobile conveyor belt installed on only a passive mechanical parts of different method. Completion of a finished product than through co-ordination of all workers to complete, but by the number of workers (small teams or small units) work even working from the hands of a working generation, specialization or integration or specialization has been holistic substitute. That is why, this mode of production is called ‘cell production mode’. Canon’s overseas production bases