Who Really Made Your Car?

Who Really Made Your Car?
Author: Thomas H. Klier
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0880993332

This book offers a comprehensive look at an industry that plays a growing role in motor vehicle production in the United States.

The Complete Book on Production of Automobile Components & Allied Products

The Complete Book on Production of Automobile Components & Allied Products
Author: B.P. Bhardwaj
Publisher: NIIR PROJECT CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 938103933X

The Complete Book on Production of Automobile Components & Allied Products (Engine Parts, Piston, Pin, Piston Ring, Valve, Control Cable, Engine Mounting, Auto Lock, Disc Brake, Drum, Gear, Leaf Spring, Shock Absorber, Silencer, Chain, Cylinder Block, Chassis, Battery, Tyre & Flaps) The rapid urbanization, coupled with an overwhelming growth in the middle class population, has created a market that is extremely conducive for the automobile industry to flourish. It is inferred from the demand, the investment in the automobile industry is estimated at over hundredths of billions in the vehicles and auto components segment. The auto market is thought to be made primarily of automakers, but auto parts makes up another lucrative sector of the market. The major areas of auto parts manufacturing are: Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) - The big auto manufacturers do produce some of their own parts, but they can't produce every part and component that goes into a new vehicle; Replacement Parts Production and Distribution - These are the parts that are replaced after the purchase of a vehicle. The book provides a characterization of vehicles, including structure, load, fuel used, requirement of various components, fabrication and so on. It will prove to be a layman’s guide and is highly recommended to entrepreneurs, existing units who wants to diversify in production of automobile and allied products, research centers, professionals and libraries, as it contains information related to manufacturing of integral parts of an automobile and practices followed in the finishing of the products. The topics covered in the book are: Classification of vehicles on the basis of load, fuel used and their parts; Material used in the manufacturing of automobile (Metals, Alloys, Polymers etc.); Technology used; Use of Aluminium in Automobiles; Use of Plastics in Automobiles; Manufacturing practices for Engine Parts(Auto Piston, Pins, Piston ring, Lead Storage Battery, Valve & Valve Seat, Automobile Silencer, Automobile Chain, Cylinder Block, Automobile Control Cable, Engine Mounting PAD, Auto Locks etc.); Manufacturing of Automobile Chassis, Disc Brake, Brake Drum, Gear, Gear Blank, Leaf Spring, Shock Absorbers, Automobile Tyres; Heat Treatment System for Automobile Parts; Forging Technology (Open Die Forging Process, Close Die Forging Process, Designing of forged parts) and Painting Technology(Conversion Coating, NAD Finishes, Aluminium Flake Orientation, Opacity, Gloss, Electro Powder Coating, Spot Repair, Electrostatic Spray etc.) for automobile parts; Scab Corrosion Test, Peel Resistance. 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U.S. Industrial Outlook

U.S. Industrial Outlook
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 654
Release: 1994
Genre: Industrial statistics
ISBN:

Presents industry reviews including a section of "trends and forecasts," complete with tables and graphs for industry analysis.

Automotive Global Value Chain

Automotive Global Value Chain
Author: Wilson Kia Onn Wong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-08-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315300974

Today, some suppliers have grown increasingly powerful and in certain cases, earn revenues that rival or even exceed that of their automaker clients. In the pre-globalisation period, automakers wielded absolute power over their significantly smaller suppliers. This book reveals the upending of this relationship, with the gradual shift in the balance of power from automakers to their suppliers in this era of globalisation. The book examines how suppliers in the global tyres, seats, constant velocity joints (hereafter 'CVJs'), braking systems and automotive semiconductor industries have evolved into powerful oligopolies through a mix of acquisition and organic growth strategies. It also highlights how joint ventures could be strategically deployed as springboards to acquisition, as they enable firms to familiarise themselves with their partners’ markets and operations. Moreover, the book analyses the disruption stirred by the entry of well-resourced technology titans into this industry and their inevitable clash with the traditional incumbents. This book is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in learning more about the automakers’ and now their suppliers’ relentless quest to create market-dominating intelligent driving systems.

Wrecked

Wrecked
Author: Joshua Murray
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0871548208

At its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, automobile manufacturing was the largest, most profitable industry in the United States and residents of industry hubs like Detroit and Flint, Michigan had some of the highest incomes in the country. Over the last half-century, the industry has declined, and American automakers now struggle to stay profitable. How did the most prosperous industry in the richest country in the world crash and burn? In Wrecked, sociologists Joshua Murray and Michael Schwartz offer an unprecedented historical-sociological analysis of the downfall of the auto industry. Through an in-depth examination of labor relations and the production processes of automakers in the U.S. and Japan both before and after World War II, they demonstrate that the decline of the American manufacturers was the unintended consequence of their attempts to weaken the bargaining power of their unions. Today Japanese and many European automakers produce higher quality cars at lower cost than their American counterparts thanks to a flexible form of production characterized by long-term sole suppliers, assembly and supply plants located near each other, and just-in-time delivery of raw materials. While this style of production was, in fact, pioneered in the U.S. prior to World War II, in the years after the war, American automakers deliberately dismantled this system. As Murray and Schwartz show, flexible production accelerated innovation but also facilitated workers’ efforts to unionize plants and carry out work stoppages. To reduce the efficacy of strikes and combat the labor militancy that flourished between the Depression and the postwar period, the industry dispersed production across the nation, began maintaining large stockpiles of inventory, and eliminated single sourcing. While this restructuring of production did ultimately reduce workers’ leverage, it also decreased production efficiency and innovation. The U.S. auto industry has struggled ever since to compete with foreign automakers, and formerly thriving motor cities have suffered the consequences of mass deindustrialization. Murray and Schwartz argue that new business models that reinstate flexible production and prioritize innovation rather than cheap labor could stem the outsourcing of jobs and help revive the auto industry. By clarifying the historical relationships between production processes, organized labor, and industrial innovation, Wrecked provides new insights into the inner workings and decline of the U.S. auto industry.

Operations Management in Automotive Industries

Operations Management in Automotive Industries
Author: Marco Gobetto
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9400775938

This book has proved its worth over the years as a text for courses in Production Management at the Faculty of Automotive Engineering in Turin, Italy, but deserves a wider audience as it presents a compendium of basics on Industrial Management, since it covers all major topics required. It treats all subjects from product development and “make or buy”-decision strategies to the manufacturing systems setting and management through analysis of the main resources needed in production and finally exploring the supply chain management and the procurement techniques. The very last chapter recapitulates the previous ones by analysing key management indicators to pursue the value creation that is the real purpose of every industrial enterprise. As an appendix, a specific chapter is dedicated to the basics of production management where all main relevant definitions, techniques and criteria are treated, including some numerical examples, in order to provide an adequate foundation for understanding the other chapters. This book will be of use not only to Automotive Engineering students but a wide range of readers who wish to gain insight in the world of automotive engineering and the automotive industry in general.

MOSS Talks/U.S. Auto Parts Industry

MOSS Talks/U.S. Auto Parts Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1987
Genre: Automobile industry and trade
ISBN:

Arsenal of Democracy

Arsenal of Democracy
Author: Charles K. Hyde
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814339522

Examines the role of the American automobile industry in producing vehicles, weapons, and other war products during World War II. Throughout World War II, Detroit's automobile manufacturers accounted for one-fifth of the dollar value of the nation's total war production, and this amazing output from "the arsenal of democracy" directly contributed to the allied victory. In fact, automobile makers achieved such production miracles that many of their methods were adopted by other defense industries, particularly the aircraft industry. In Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II,award-winning historian Charles K. Hyde details the industry's transition to a wartime production powerhouse and some of its notable achievements along the way. Hyde examines several innovative cooperative relationships that developed between the executive branch of the federal government, U.S. military services, automobile industry leaders, auto industry suppliers, and the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, which set up the industry to achieve production miracles. He goes on to examine the struggles and achievements of individual automakers during the war years in producing items like aircraft engines, aircraft components, and complete aircraft; tanks and other armored vehicles; jeeps, trucks, and amphibians; guns, shells, and bullets of all types; and a wide range of other weapons and war goods ranging from search lights to submarine nets and gyroscopes. Hyde also considers the important role played by previously underused workers-namely African Americans and women-in the war effort and their experiences on the line. Arsenal of Democracy includes an analysis of wartime production nationally, on the automotive industry level, by individual automakers, and at the single plant level. For this thorough history, Hyde has consulted previously overlooked records collected by the Automobile Manufacturers Association that are now housed in the National Automotive History Collection of the Detroit Public Library. Automotive historians, World War II scholars, and American history buffs will welcome the compelling look at wartime industry in Arsenal of Democracy.