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Scope
of Conference
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At the World Conference on Production and Operations
Management, people in production and operations management professions from
all over the world will gather for the purpose of exchanging knowledge in
the field of manufacturing and operations management.
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 The first such conference was held
in Seville, Spain in late August 2000. At
the first conference, three academic societies took the leading roles, and
agreed that this conference should henceforth be held once every four
years.
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The three societies are:
the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA), the Production and
Operations Management Society (POMS) of the United States, and Japanese
Operations Management and Strategy Association
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At the first conference, the
number of presentations was narrowed down, and approximately 200
presentations were given. The second conference was held from the end of
April to the beginning of May 2004, and was hosted by POMS in Cancun, Mexico.
The conference was held in conjunction with POMS' own annual conference,
and thus the number of presentations was increased to more than 500. By all
accounts, it was a great success.
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The third conference will be held from August 5th to the 8th in
2008 at Gakushuin University in Tokyo (Mejiro, Toshima Ward).
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Japanese
Operations Management and Strategy Association will host the conference.
Its theme will be Manufacturing Fundamentals: Necessity and Sufficiency.
The main objective is to re-examine the basis of production management and
to find out a promising direction to expand perspectives on and grow the
field of production management.
Up
until now, various manufacturing practices including those to realize JIT
have been proposed, but the state seems to have fallen into confusion.
Another aim of this conference is to overcome a superficial understanding
of these practices, and to search out a way of constructing a new knowledge
system based on fundamental principles.
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Many manufacturing companies seem to be taking a step forward in
production management with an attitude of going back to basics.
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As the
management of manufacturing processes slips away from corporate
management's priority, various problems stemming from weakened
manufacturing capability starts shaking the basis of corporation. The
ability of managing manufacturing processes can easily deteriorate, but to
recover it requires a massive amount of time and energy. Manufacturing
management must be the basis of all management activities, and the ability
in this area must be cultivated. Without it, no matter what advanced
technology based strategy is employed, it will end in failure. This is partly
because management becomes tied down and unable to function properly.
This
means that the upcoming conference will have a large implication not only
for manufacturing, but for management itself. It will be of great reference
to diligent corporations that wish to obtain the required management
knowledge to succeed in the future.
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This conference will be held in the same year as the Olympic
Games in Beijing.
The Asian region is also now drawing attention from all over the world as
the critical manufacturing base.
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It can be said
that holding the conference in Asia at
this time next year is of great significance. Scholars and businesspersons
from all over the world will gather here and be able to see for themselves
what is happening at the actual site. They all will have a unique
opportunity to debate with each other about manufacturing issues based on
what they have just observed.
It
would be our great honor to invite you to participate in POM Tokyo 2008.
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JOMSA,
the 3rd World Conference on Production and Operations Management,
Planning Committee
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Mt. Fuji
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