Abstract: As a result of successful domestic economic reforms combined with a fast-developing international market that is willing to purchase its labor-intense products, China’s economy has grown approximately 10% per year over the past 28 years and the GDP per person has grown up to 10561RMB in 2004. This remarkable development has made China the second largest beneficiary of direct foreign i...

This goal of this paper is to provide a framework by which China should accelerate the development and production of new energy vehicles, which should effectively address current energy and environmental pressures, while promoting the sustainable development of the automotive industry, which is an urgent task. In addition, this paper provides guidelines that seek to transform China’s auto indus...

The Indian automotive industry has flourished like never before in the recent years. On the canvas of the Indian Economy, Auto Industry occupies a prominent place. The car industry in India has been on steroids. The domestic sales have reached a level of 2 million units per annum, growing in double digits. It is expected to rise further to 3.66 million units by 2014-15 and 5.2 million units by ...

With the advent of highly powerful microprocessors, the explosion of wireless communication, and the development of new generations of integrated sensors and actuators, the way electronic products are conceived, designed, and implemented has undergone a revolution. In addition, the electronics industry is undergoing a major restructuring that favors horizontal integration and vertical disintegr...

It is part of the badge of being a red-blooded American businessman to oppose government regulation of business and-as the ultimate anathema-to oppose government takeover, i.e., government operation of an enterprise that might otherwise be run by private business. Although the insurance industry has long been regulated on the state level, there seems little or no fear of takeover by state gover...

We describe a new solution approach for order sequencing which reflects the build-to-order strategy of the European automobile industry. Therefore, it has to cope with a daily changing variety of customer orders. Each order consists of a set of commodities which are implemented while the order sequence passes through a body shop, a paint shop, and an assembly shop. Existing solution approaches ...