Automation in Automotive Industries
Subtitle: Recent Developments
By: edited by Anna Comacchio, Giuseppe Volpato, Arnaldo Camuffo
Contributors: Volpato, Giuseppe; Camuffo, Arnaldo
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9783642641572; 9783642598647
Subjects: Engineering; Industrial engineering
Description: The book focuses on understanding the most recent change patterns in automation, manufacturing systems, organization and management of human resources of the world automobile firms. In brief, even if the automation issue is one of the main focuses of this book, regarding specific technological solutions, we refer the readers to the in depth analysis of the proceedings of previous conferences. This book deals with adjustment processes underlying significant experiences. Specifically, the main aim of the book is to understand the new step of the evolutionary process which involves the manufacturing system of the automobile supply chain (automobile manufacturers and parts manufacturing firms). The drivers of this evolution are analyzed, specifically focusing on the continous interaction among changing competitive context, new technological patterns and emerging human resource management and organizational issues.
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Table of contents: title: Industry clockspeed and competency chain; title: New perspectives on automation; title: Competitive strategies, industrial models and assembly automation templates; title: Automation and Inertia; title: Automation strategies at the 1st tier suppliers in Japan. Process development and product trajectory; title: Anticipating problems with manufacturing during the product development process; title: Diffusion patterns of lean practices: lessons from the European auto industry; title: The transfer of organizing principle in the world auto industry: Cross-cultural influences on replication at Opel Eisenach.