Automation in Automotive Industries : Recent Development

Title: Automation in Automotive Industries : Recent Development
Author: A. Camuffo, A. Comacchio, G. Volpato
ISBN: 3540640185 / 9783540640189
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 140
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Year: 1999
Availability: 45-60 days

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The book focuses on understanding the most recent change patterns in automation, manufacturing systems, organization and management of human resource of the world automobile forms.
In brief, even if the automation issue is one of the main focuses of this book, regarding specific technological solutions, we refere 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 focusin on the continuous interaction among changing competitive context, new technological patterns and emerging human resource management and organizational issues.

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Chapter 1. : Introduction
Chapter 2. : Industry Clockspeed and Competency Chain Design : An Introductory Essay
Chapter 3. : New Perspectives on Automation
Chapter 4. : Competitive Strategies, Industrial Models and Assembly Automation Templates
Chapter 5. : Automation and Inertia
Chapter 6. : Automation Strategies at the First-Tier Suppliers in Japan. Process Development and Product Trajectory. Hypothesis on the Supplier-Assembler Relationship
Chapter 7. : Anticipating Problems With Manufacturing During the Product Development Process
Chapter 8. : Diffusion Patterns of Lean Practices: Lessons from the European Auto Industry
Chapter 9. : The Transfer of Organizing Principles in the World Auto Industry: Cross-Cultural Influences on Replication at Opel Eisenach
Chapter 10. : The Authors of the Book