Business Characteristics of Manufacturing Companies

Key Operating Characteristics of Manufacturing Enterprises

Survival of the fittest is the eternal law of competition. Existing manufacturing enterprises will generate new enterprises adapted to the competitive environment of the 21st century through a variety of ways, such as gradual change, restructuring, transformation, dynamic alliances and asset mergers. These enterprises along the trajectory of development, in terms of purpose, configuration, resources, markets, core competitive advantages, organizational culture, have some significant characteristics.

1, the business purpose is to meet the customer's individual needs

The end of this century, the developed countries manufacturing enterprises have defined quality as a combination of zero defects and user satisfaction, that is, user satisfaction as an effective criterion of quality has been recognized by the community; with the information technology and manufacturing technology, in particular, the seamless integration of CAD/CAPP/CAM to achieve the maturity of the technology of single-piece production With the seamless integration of information technology and manufacturing technology, especially CAD/CAPP/CAM, the technology of realizing single-piece production is maturing. The continuous satisfaction of the customer's individual needs will lead to the rise of the concept of subjective quality, the enterprise production of products will be apt to reflect the feelings of consumers. 2, process, equipment and plant reconfigurability, variable scale and cost economy

With the value of knowledge as the main component of product value, advanced manufacturing processes, available intelligent software and automation equipment, constitute the hardware resources of the future business competition. Individualized needs and uncertain market environments require overcoming the risk of higher costs caused by equipment resource sedimentation. The reconfigurability of manufacturing hardware resources becomes the characteristic of enterprise equipment.

3, human resources is the core element of the future resources

Traditional manufacturing industry as the value of workers is labor, the future of the uncertain market and developed manufacturing technology, requires companies to hire more with high ability and passion for creating the Gu, they are granted a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, dealing with the uncertainty of the single event, to ensure that the competitiveness of the enterprise. At the same time, they are required to learn continuously to ensure that the dynamic reorganization process can become useful talents in the society in the whole life cycle.

4. Globalization of Manufacturing Enterprises in the 21st Century

The globalization of manufacturing industry is not only limited to the familiar international operation, but also includes the globalization of the whole process from design, production to supply and marketing chain. The development of digital technology shows the virtual living space for human beings, making knowledge an important attribute of the future economy. The current international trade theory of labor cost advantage and tax relief business environment and other corporate competitive advantages, will gradually lose importance. 21st century manufacturing industry's internationalization trend, reflecting the new division of labor needs of the scale of knowledge products, and the internationalization of the enterprise for the manufacturing enterprises to play their own core competitive advantages, the realization of knowledge economy under the premise of professional production.

5, virtual enterprise and team capacity building

Virtual enterprise and team capacity building is the core competitive advantage of enterprises in the next century. As knowledge becomes an important asset in the next century, and the changing market demand makes it impossible for any enterprise to control all the property rights resources, but to respond quickly to the market, it is necessary to adopt a "win-win" strategy, that is, "you win, I also win" strategy, the formation of dynamic alliances In order to respond quickly to the market, it is necessary to adopt a "win-win" strategy, i.e., "you win, I win" strategy, and form dynamic alliances in the form of virtual enterprises to cultivate and share market opportunities. In addition, since the generation and application of patents and know-how, the main forms of intellectual property rights, are closely related to human thinking, the incentive for generating such intangible assets and realizing their value cannot be simply transposed to the supervision and management mode under mass production.

6, the formation of the cultural atmosphere and innovation

The formation of the cultural atmosphere and innovation is the 21st century enterprise is another significant feature. Abandon some of the traditional concepts of the industrial economy, advocate the spirit of innovation, pay attention to the process of corporate change, the continuous development of new products, new technologies and cultivate, open up new markets, and constantly adjust the core competitive advantages and organizational structure, the full realization of the value of the human being, will become the next century of the eternal pursuit of enterprise. Enterprise culture atmosphere construction should also obey the purpose of manufacturing - to meet the diversified and individual needs of people, and people include both consumers and producers.

7, localized features

By the political, humanities, economic environment, customer consumption preferences have national characteristics. Manufacturing enterprises in the strategic choice, market positioning, flexibility characteristics of the differences and speed of response in all aspects of the regional characteristics. It can be envisioned that the implementation of rapid response manufacturing enterprises in developed countries, emphasizing the function of the information flow, while China's enterprises to achieve rapid response to pay attention to and solve the bottleneck of the material flow, so the internationalization and the local characteristics of the interaction, compatible with the development of the two sides of the enterprise.