Abstract
With the advances in information technology and Internet, business operations and development have overcome distance limitations, so in order to meet the market demands, many companies have developed into a multi-plant production mode. With the limited human resources, producers should review its overall inspection process, eliminating unnecessary waste in order to achieve process efficiency and increase output performance. This study proposes a multi-plant inspection process improvement model which, without causing deterioration of the quality inspection, used asynchronous information integration technology to combine multi-plant inspection processes to achieve the test process improvement, to speed up inspection speed, to reduce the number of personnel errors, to reduce production costs, and to improve competitiveness. This research adopted case study method to examine the use of the combined inter-plant inspection process model for process improvement of a GPS firm. The results show that the use of the model and system built on asynchronous information integration improves inspect efficiency, decreases error rates, and reduces production costs. The model used in this study appears to be applicable to other multi-plant production processes.