Abstract
In recent years, the consumer demands are more various and the products’ life cycles also become shorter. For this reason, manufacturers in the world are trying to improve their productive procedure to reduce the cost and shorten the delivery time. The traditional productive procedure which emphasizes economical batch conveyor belt production is challenged because of the products diversity and the changeable market demands. Therefore, how to respond the market demands timely is the most important improvement for all the manufacturers. After Japanese companies such as Sony and Canon started to introduce cell production in the 90s, they have increased their profit and made them more competitive. Manufacturers in Taiwan have also started to introduce the cell production into Taiwan’s companies in these past few years, but what is the difference between tradition conveyor belt mass production and cell production, do they need any crucial components to help them achieve the expected objective? Could cell production replace conveyor belt production? These are issues deserved to be explored.This research uses a communication technology company in Taiwan for a case study, where the study is carried out by dividing the process of introducing cell production into different stages. It was found that this company which introduced cell production had a better result than conveyor belt production in the initial stage. This company used cell production to dispose their production line and gained a better productive area. They also omitted unnecessary procedures and components to improve their productivity. From the entire version, this company had positive result after introducing cell production. Nevertheless the research shows that there is still a room for improvement in the process of introducing cell production. By referring to related documents or records, continuous improvement can be made in crucial components in terms of multi-skill training, cell production design, etc. These will further bring the benefits of cell production to its full play.This study would be able to provide a useful reference material for companies which want to introduce cell production in their companies. They could find the most suitable production procedure according to their own business model and market property. They could also compare cell production with their intrinsic production procedure, find the pros and the cons, and it might help them to improve their competitiveness.