Automation in Automotive Industries: Recent Developments

✍ Scribed by G. Volpato, A. Camuffo, A. Comacchio (auth.), Professor Anna Comacchio, Professor Giuseppe Volpato, Professor Arnaldo Camuffo (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Industry clockspeed and competency chain design: an introductory essay....Pages 6-10
New perspectives on automation....Pages 11-30
Competitive strategies, industrial models and assembly automation templates....Pages 31-45
Automation and Inertia....Pages 46-61
Automation Strategies at the First-Tier Suppliers in Japan: Process Development and Product Trajectory. Hypothesis on the Supplier-Assembler Relationship....Pages 62-73
Anticipating Problems with Manufacturing during the Product Development Process....Pages 74-91
Diffusion patterns of lean practices: lessons from the European auto industry....Pages 92-118
The Transfer of Organizing Principles in the World Auto Industry: Cross-Cultural Influences on Replication at Opel Eisenach....Pages 119-137
Back Matter....Pages 138-140

✦ Subjects

Industrial and Production Engineering; Automotive Engineering