Joint product development, in which suppliers and automakers hare the responsibility for component design, has given Japanese auto companies an important competitive advantage in both quality and new model lead times [Clark, 1989]. In contrast, U.S. automakers until recently left little room for suppliers' participation in the design process; vendors typically manufactured components to assembl...

In recent years, Jilin’s FDI(foreign direct investment) has grown faster, the amount of investment has been increasing, investing industries have presented variety, investing districts have been a steady expansion. Jilin province fostered a lot of powerful and large-scaled enterprise groups in three pillar industries--automobile industry, petrochemical industry and agricultural products process...

Potential of groundwater contamination by trichloroethylene (TCE) and other volatile organic compounds VOCs near car industry was conducted in this study. TCE, PCE, toluene, xylene, dichloromethane, cyclohexane, n-hexane and n-pentane were detected in all groundwaters. Mean TCE levels in groundwater ranged from 124.37 to 1,035.9 μg L⁻¹ with maximum level of 1,345.7 μg L⁻¹. Due to the data obtai...

Ford Motor Company’s Direct Labor Management System (DLMS) utilizes knowledge representation scheme based on the KL-ONE family of languages to represent the world of automobile vehicle assembly knowledge. DLMS is an implemented system that has been utilized by Ford personnel since 1991 and it remains an integral part of Ford’s worldwide manufacturing strategy. This paper will describe the ratio...

This paper presents the results of comparative research between the Japanese and Korean automobile industries on the result of quality management and the improvement. Japanese vehicles have been seen as reliable, low maintenance, and good quality cars. Japanese manufacturers developed several important quality management purposes and unique vernacular standards. Meanwhile, though the Korean aut...

Management of change has assumed a great deal of importance in Indian automobile industry. Managing change is posing a big challenge to Indian firms in the wake of globalization and liberalization. Successful change demands that all major areas of an organization are kept in focus concurrently. These areas are technology, structure, systems, people and culture. It is seen that all these areas a...