The Prospects of Future Production: An Arena for Emerging New Strategies and Policies of Manufacturing–The Household Appliance Industry’s Review

Nowadays, manufacturing is one of the most important indicators of human societies development, and receiving an outstanding feedback from manufacturing sector, causes economic strength improvement of a country. Researching about operations management stretches back to long time ago and always human beings have attempted to codify their activities in order to gain their targets. Given rapid and fundamental changes in organizations and human societies, undoubtedly in the near future we will experience a new era of industrial manufacturing. Regarding to this subject, governments and organizations, by adopting accurate manufacturing strategies and policies should prepare themselves for presenting in the new area. In this article, initially we investigate major problems and issues related to industrial manufacturing that managers and policy makers deal with. Then future manufacturing characteristics are mentioned and finally the ways of making manufacturing policies and appropriate strategies are reviewed.Moreover, we have investigated the status of household appliance industry in Iran, by interviewing with experts in this industry. Eventually for improving the status some applicable policies and strategies are proposed.