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Apr 16, 2015 00:38
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Japanese term

ブリッジ生産

Japanese to English Tech/Engineering Manufacturing
「同じ製品を同じ時期に複数の工場で生産すること」を意味するのですが、これを英語では何というのでしょうか。
Proposed translations (English)
3 multi-factory parallel production/manufacturing
3 bridging production (volume/strategy)

Discussion

Marc Brunet Apr 20, 2015:
Sure. I understand your concern, Port City.
The Japanese phrase is so condensed and elliptic that it would need supplementary clarification in English. However, to do this without skewing the translation, we need to know:
a) how it fits in the original sentence (NP/AdjP or Vb?)
b) the purpose of the manufacturing approach referred to (we have 4 possible situations so far, but it would not take much to provide that hint, as I have in brackets.)
Can Kayochan provide any info re: a) and b), perhaps?
Without such extra information, the play-safe solution is the one you suggest, Port City. But is it really what the asker is after, since she briefed us with the very definition you are inclined to settle for?
Port City Apr 18, 2015:
結局のところ、「ブリッジ生産」のように短い表現で「同じ製品を同じ時期に複数の工場で生産すること」を表す英語表現はないように思います。しいて言えば、「複数工場でのブリッジ生産」の説明のようですが "production of the same products across multiple plants" あたりが分かりやすいのではないかと思います。
Marc Brunet Apr 18, 2015:
Thank you, Port City, for this very interesting additional information on flexible programmable parallel production of the same product on multiple versatile lines within the same plant. You refer to such lines as capable of switching from one batch of product to another at short notice to support a quicker response to a sharp rise in its demand. In fact, I recall Nissan Motors' great pride in its Gumma assembly lines, for not only did they excel in performing as you explained, but they assembled as a matter of course mixed batches of various models on the same run, without the need for any switching interruption. ..and they already achieved that feat ...45 years ago. Well, that’s something, wasn’t it? :-)
Port City Apr 17, 2015:
I understand「ブリッジ生産」itself means production in multiple lines; in fact, the term is used when the same products are produced in 2 lines in the same plant besides when they are manufactured in different plants. (In this particular document, apparently they mean parallel production involving different plants, I guess.)

Generally, manufacturers introduce this ブリッジ生産 to be able to respond to changes in demands quickly; their ブリッジ生産 lines are capable of producing more than one product; when there is less demand for product A, they can switch to producing product B. Apart from this flexibility, other merits that ブリッジ生産 offers seem to be just bonuses that come with the main purpose.
Marc Brunet Apr 16, 2015:
A further note on the subject (2/2) 4/ (there may be other situations to which ブリッジ生産 or 並産 may apply. If you are aware of them, thank you for supplementing this list.)

Even though these two Japanese terms are presented in the business literature and glossaries as equivalents, I now sense that a slight distinction may be in order in using each: would be inclined to associate 並産 with Case 1, and ブリッジ生産 with Case 2 and 3. Looking forward to your views on this, Everyone :-).
Marc Brunet Apr 16, 2015:
A further note on the subject (1/2) ブリッジ生産 or 並産 may appear in contexts dealing with at least 3 different constraints/purposes. Which one of those would best match your context, Kayochan?

1/ deploying manufacturing operations producing the same product (range) across regions (to save on supply costs, and or comply with gvt's regional development policy) or across country boundaries (through joint ventures with local interests, bypassing tariff barriers while providing local jobs, know how and consumer demand (international car market)
2/ distributing among several geographically distant participants the design and manufacturing of the components/sections of a single complex product requiring investments beyond the financial means + range of knowhow/ of any single one of the participants (Europe's production of the 'Airbus').
3/ bridging a production shortfall by mobilising the production capacities required to meet the demand for a particular product at a particular time larger than any of these component production systems can deliver. (Any emergency situation temporarily crippling either the production of a manufacturing operation's particular product, or its timely delivery.)

Proposed translations

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multi-factory parallel production/manufacturing

The heterogeneous multi-factory production network ... - ScienceDirect
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025512004847
The heterogeneous multi-factory production network scheduling with adaptive communication policy and parallel machine ... Multi-factory production (MFP) takes place in several factories, which may be geographically distributed in different ...
The heterogeneous multi-factory production ... - ResearchGate
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Publication » The heterogeneous multi-factory production network scheduling with adaptive communication policy and parallel machine.
Multi-factory parallel machine problems: improved ... - ResearchGate
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Publication » Multi-factory parallel machine problems: improved mathematical models and artificial bee colony algorithm. ... covering the relevant features required for the complete supply chain management of a multi-site production network.
The heterogeneous multi-factory production network scheduling with ...
dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2388196
1 Jan 2013 ... The heterogeneous multi-factory production network scheduling with adaptive communication policy and parallel machine, 2013 Article. Bibliometrics Data Bibliometrics. · Downloads (6 Weeks): n/a · Downloads (12 Months): ...
Note from asker:
Thank you Cinefil-san. I guess there is no short English words for "ブリッジ生産”...and your suggestion "Multi-factory parallel production" fits pretty well with what I have to explain, so I will use this expression. Thanks for your help.
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bridging production (volume/strategy)

This phrase would is a 'natural' to denote the complementary production volume generated, or strategy designed, to make up for a local capacity insufficient to meet the demand for a particular product at a particular time, by mobilising the capacities of other plants somewhere else, that have the means of shoring up that production shortfall to meet that demand.
To be honest, I cannot find an instance of that concept worded as a Nn Phrase as offered here. English tends to express that concept as a Vb+ Obj : "to bridge a production shortfall". Note that the example supplied below does not fully match the criteria defined by Weblio, since the shortfall concerned refers to 'income' rather than 'same produce', but you get the idea....


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https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yYxuAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT81&lp...
Example sentence:

Many small farmers who end up working on larger farms may initially take on such employment in order to bridge a food production shortfall.

Reference:

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yYxuAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT81&lpg=PT81&dq=to+bridge+the+production+shortfall&source=bl&ots=Rq77HUtqj3&sig=D8FthL

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