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This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production
in Belgium and Spain. It delves into how European integration, high
wages, and the demise of GM and Ford led to plant closings in
Belgium. Next, it investigates how lower wages and the expansion
strategies of Western European automakers stimulated expansion in
the Spanish auto industry. Finally, it offers three alternate
scenarios regarding how further EU expansion and Brexit may
potentially reshape the geographic footprint of European car
production over the next ten years. In sum, this book utilizes
history to help expand the knowledge of scholars and policymakers
regarding how European integration and Brexit may impact future
auto industry investment for all EU nations.
The automotive industry ranks among the most significant business
phenomena of the 20th century and remains vitally important today,
accounting for almost 11% of the GDP of North America, Europe and
Japan and one in nine jobs. Although its products have had a
fundamental impact on modern society in economic and social terms,
the industry has found it hard to adjust to contemporary conditions
and is thus no longer esteemed in capital markets. Riven with
internal contradictions that inhibit reform, it now faces a stark
choice between years of strife or radical change. Highlighting the
challenges and opportunities that exist for managers, legislators,
financial institutions and potential industry entrants, this book
is a wake-up call for those who work in the automotive industry.
Most of all, it gives us all cause to reflect on the value of
mobility, today and tomorrow. Graeme Maxton is director of
AutoPolis, a firm that specializes in the structures and dynamics
of the world automotive industry and helps clients position
themselves for profitable growth. He is responsible for its
activities in Asia and since 1992, has been closely affiliated with
the Economist Newspaper Group and chairs all of The Economist's
automotive industry conferences throughout the world. He writes for
Business China, Business Asia, and various other Group
publications, as well as for numerous newspapers throughout Europe
and Asia. He is also a television, radio, and press commentator on
the industry. Maxton and Wormald were co-authors of Driving Over a
Cliff? Business Lessons from the World's Car Industry (Addison
Wesley, 1994), which was nominated for the Financial Times Best
Book about Business Award. JohnWormald is a director and co-founder
of Autopolis. He has worked in and for the automotive industry for
over 25 years. He advises vehicle manufacturers, component
suppliers, distribution and service companies, and financial and
government institutions, with a particular emphasis on the
downstream distribution and service sectors of the industry. He
regularly lectures about the industry, speaks at industry
conferences, writes for automotive and general publications, and is
quoted and interviewed in the media. He is a co-author of Driving
Over a Cliff?
The automobile industry is evolving rapidly on a worldwide basis.
All of the biggest, most successful firms have become totally
global in nature. Plunkett's Automobile Industry Almanac will be
your complete guide to this immense, fascinating industry. This
exciting new book is a complete reference tool for everything you
need to know about the car, truck and specialty vehicles business,
including: Automotive industry trends and market research, mergers
and acquisitions, globalization, automobile manufacturers, truck
makers, specialty vehicles such as RVs, automobile finance and
other financial services, dealerships, components manufacturers,
retail auto parts stores, e-commerce and more. We discuss in detail
developments in China, India and other emerging markets,
collaboration and partnerships between auto makers, as well as
batteries, hybrids and plug in hybrid vehicles (PHEV). This book
includes extensive statistical tables, an automobile industry
glossary, industry contacts and indexes. The corporate profile
section of the book includes our proprietary, in-depth profiles of
the 400 leading companies in all facets of the automobile industry.
You'll find a complete overview, industry analysis and market
research report in one superb, value-priced package.
This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production
in Belgium and Spain. It delves into how European integration, high
wages, and the demise of GM and Ford led to plant closings in
Belgium. Next, it investigates how lower wages and the expansion
strategies of Western European automakers stimulated expansion in
the Spanish auto industry. Finally, it offers three alternate
scenarios regarding how further EU expansion and Brexit may
potentially reshape the geographic footprint of European car
production over the next ten years. In sum, this book utilizes
history to help expand the knowledge of scholars and policymakers
regarding how European integration and Brexit may impact future
auto industry investment for all EU nations.
Carla Bailo, CEO of the Center for Automotive Research, and Terry
Barclay, CEO of Inforum, bring together over 30 of the most
influential women in the automotive industry to share their insight
and advice. From suppliers to OEMs, they hail from every corner of
the industry.Readers will learn how to take charge of their own
careers by understanding the experiences these professionals.
Topics include:Work-Life Integration – How can you be whole at
home, at work, and in the community?Education and Lifelong Learning
– Do you really need a graduate degree?Mentor and Sponsor
Relationships – How do you find mentors and sponsors and form
productive relationships with them?Career Challenges – How do you
evaluate when to take career risks? How do you say yes when all the
boxes aren’t checked? Resilience – Where do you find the
internal fortitude to keep going? Personal Satisfaction – What do
these leaders find most joyful about their careers? The Road to the
Top is Not on the Map features female leaders who candidly share
the habits, motivations, triumphs, defeats, and lessons learned
that helped them achieve top jobs in the industry. Their insights
have relevance for women at all stages in their careers, whether
its young women interested in pursuing a career in the auto
industry, those looking for their next strategic move, or those
seeking insight and inspiration.
When human drivers let intelligent software take the wheel: the
beginning of a new era in personal mobility. "Smart, wide-ranging,
[and] nontechnical." -Los Angeles Times "Anyone who wants to
understand what's coming must read this fascinating book." -Martin
Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Robots In
the year 2014, Google fired a shot heard all the way to Detroit.
Google's newest driverless car had no steering wheel and no brakes.
The message was clear: cars of the future will be born fully
autonomous, with no human driver needed. In the coming decade,
self-driving cars will hit the streets, rearranging established
industries and reshaping cities, giving us new choices in where we
live and how we work and play. In this book, Hod Lipson and Melba
Kurman offer readers insight into the risks and benefits of
driverless cars and a lucid and engaging explanation of the
enabling technology. Recent advances in software and robotics are
toppling long-standing technological barriers that for decades have
confined self-driving cars to the realm of fantasy. A new kind of
artificial intelligence software called deep learning gives cars
rapid and accurate visual perception. Human drivers can relax and
take their eyes off the road. When human drivers let intelligent
software take the wheel, driverless cars will offer billions of
people all over the world a safer, cleaner, and more convenient
mode of transportation. Although the technology is nearly ready,
car companies and policy makers may not be. The authors make a
compelling case for why government, industry, and consumers need to
work together to make the development of driverless cars our
society's next "Apollo moment."
This book identifies factors of information system (IS) integration
that influence supply chain agility and illustrates how IS
integration can achieve greater supply chain agility. Also
considering the consequent operational impacts that arise from
IS-enabled supply chain agility, the author presents real-life
examples through interviews and surveys to explore how IS
integrations affect supply chain agility in the context of the
Chinese automotive industry. The ability to swiftly respond to
competitive challenges is a key element in industry 4.0 and
organisations with agile supply chains are better prepared to
respond to uncertainties and changes. This book develops and
presents guidelines on the deployment of information system
integration in order to achieve efficient agile supply chains.
This book proposes that, within the automotive industry, revised
marketing principles and innovative marketing strategies are needed
to address more effectively the unprecedented challenges posed by
the modern digital revolution. The starting point for these
proposals is a thorough analysis of the evolution of marketing in
the industry across three ages of technological innovations - the
mechanical, the electronic, and the digital. The main objectives
are first, to illustrate how study of the past can help carmakers
as they move forward into the unknown, and second, to identify the
main choices that they will face. The central premise is that
unusual times call for unusual strategies. By mining the past in
order to foresee likely future developments regarding competition
and marketing strategies within the car industry, the book will
appeal both to researchers and to present or future managers in the
automotive and other innovation-driven sectors.
This comprehensive text/reference presents an in-depth review of
the state of the art of automotive connectivity and cybersecurity
with regard to trends, technologies, innovations, and applications.
The text describes the challenges of the global automotive market,
clearly showing where the multitude of innovative activities fit
within the overall effort of cutting-edge automotive innovations,
and provides an ideal framework for understanding the complexity of
automotive connectivity and cybersecurity. Topics and features:
discusses the automotive market, automotive research and
development, and automotive electrical/electronic and software
technology; examines connected cars and autonomous vehicles, and
methodological approaches to cybersecurity to avoid cyber-attacks
against vehicles; provides an overview on the automotive industry
that introduces the trends driving the automotive industry towards
smart mobility and autonomous driving; reviews automotive research
and development, offering background on the complexity involved in
developing new vehicle models; describes the technologies essential
for the evolution of connected cars, such as cyber-physical systems
and the Internet of Things; presents case studies on Car2Go and car
sharing, car hailing and ridesharing, connected parking, and
advanced driver assistance systems; includes review questions and
exercises at the end of each chapter. The insights offered by this
practical guide will be of great value to graduate students,
academic researchers and professionals in industry seeking to learn
about the advanced methodologies in automotive connectivity and
cybersecurity.
This book examines the dramatic increase in automotive assembly
plants in the former Socialist Central European (CE) nations of
Czechia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia from 1989
onwards. Enticed by relatively lower-wage labour and significant
government incentives, the world's largest automakers have launched
more than 20 passenger car assembly complexes in CE nations, with
production accelerating dramatically since 2001. As a result, the
annual passenger car production in Western Europe declined by more
than 20% between 2001 and 2015, and alternatively in the CEE it
increased by nearly 170% during this period. Drawing on case
studies of 25 current and former foreign-run assembly plants, the
author presents a rare historical account of automotive foreign
assembly plants in the CE following this dramatic geographic shift.
This book will expand the knowledge of policy-makers in Europe in
relation to their pursuits of FDI and will be of great interest to
scholars and students of business, economic history, political
science, and development.
This book examines China, the world's largest auto market since
2008 and the story of how Chinese auto-makers developed is the
story of the Chinese economy in microcosm. It focuses on China's
systemically important automobile sector, this book reveals how
local institutions have moderated structural changes at national
and global levels, and consequently generated significant
organizational diversity in the production sphere.This book begins
with the intriguing observation that individual Chinese car makers
have been evolving in different directions despite a shared
context; what factors led to these diverse choices and positioning?
It is the central aim of this book to explain the variety of
institutional forms used by Chinese car manufacturers in navigating
the market transition and answering the challenges posed by
globalization.
Fundamentals of Integrated Vehicle Realization is a unique and
solid contribution to the subject of product development, centered
on the automotive industry. Automotive manufacturers and suppliers
are under pressure to transform themselves and deliver a higher
level of product refinement coupled with more functionality. This
could lead to the sprouting of organizational structures not in
alignment with the required product development phases.
Consequently, many product development initiatives may be cancelled
or dropped at later stages despite all the efforts and financial
investments. Therefore, it is vital that organizational unity be
always intact during any transformation. A highly effective
organization should always act as one cohesive entity dedicated to
serving the customer with creative aptitude, integrative skills,
analytical thinking, and synergistic management. Written by Dr.
Mohamed El-Sayed, Professor and Director of Vehicle Durability and
Integration Laboratory of Kettering University (Mechanical
Engineering Department), Fundamentals of Integrated Vehicle
Realization addresses an essential need for deep knowledge in the
realm of vehicle development process, from idealization to market
launch. The book covers realization process phases, process and
vehicle characteristics and attributes, front-end innovation,
virtual and physical realization, among other topics.
The use of the chassis dynamometer test cells has been an integral
part of the vehicle development and validation process for several
decades, focusing on the delivery of clean, efficient vehicles
globally. This type of testing involves specialists from different
fields such as mechanics, ventilation and refrigeration, among
others. Not all of them necessarily experts in automotive
engineering. As the demands on chassis dynamometer testing become
more exacting and more diverse, the challenge of delivering
effective installations and operating procedures becomes ever
greater. Chassis Dynamometer Testing sets out to gather knowledge
from multiple groups of specialists to better understand the
testing challenges associated with the vehicle chassis dynamometer
test cells, and enable informed design and use of these facilities.
Chassis Dynamometer Testing analyses the main factors affecting a
vehicle in order to closely reproduce them in a testing facility.
It provides complete guidance on how these tests should be
performed, including the requirements affecting the test cells
themselves so that they can be fully optimized.
This book seeks to make an original contribution to the knowledge
base underpinning ultrasonic metal welding (USMW), particularly for
the manufacturing of lithium-ion (li-ion) battery cells, modules,
and packs as used in electric vehicles. The contributors to the
book represent a team of leading experts in the field. Since its
commercialization in the early 1990s, the lithium-ion (li-ion)
battery has seen rapid growth due to its advantages of high voltage
and high power/energy density. The growth has become particularly
strong during the past decade with the development of li-ion
battery powered electric vehicles. The book focuses mainly on
two-layer and multi-layer aluminum (with and without anodizing) and
copper (with and without nickel coating) welding configurations.
Thus, its value to the practitioners in li-ion batteries and
battery electric vehicles is self-evident. The theories and methods
presented in the book are highly transferable and extendable to all
other li-ion battery applications, and can be of significant values
to battery manufacturers and the electric vehicle industry in
general. Furthermore, the new knowledge generated can drive the
development of such innovative technologies as single-sided USMW,
and thermally enhanced USMW for multiple layers of thick-sheets and
hard-to-weld materials. It is expected that the book may have even
broader implications in understanding and developing more effective
solid state joining processes such as cladding, impact welding,
friction stir welding, and ultrasonic consolidations for additive
manufacturing, which are all strongly governed by the similar
solid-state physics.
Project Management for Automotive Engineers: A Field Guide was
developed to help automotive engineers be better project managers
as automotive projects involve suppliers dispersed across the
globe, and can often span multiple years. Project scope change is
common, and so too are the budget constraints and tight deadlines.
This book is an excellent guide on how to manage continuous change.
As project management in this particular industry is intrinsically
linked to product development, the chapters focus on the project
management aspects that are significant during the various stages
of a product development cycle, including business case evaluation,
process development cycle, test phases, production ramp up at the
plant and at the Tier 1 supplier level, and how to work within a
matrix-structured organization. The principles of value projects
and how to revive failing projects are discussed. Together with
demonstrating metrics, and the techniques to ensure the project
remains on schedule and on budget, it is a must-have for
professionals getting started on this activity.
The ability to successfully predict industrial product performance
during service life provides benefits for producers and users. This
book addresses methods to improve product quality, reliability, and
durability during the product life cycle, along with methods to
avoid costs that can negatively impact profitability plans. The
methods presented can be applied to reducing risk in the research
and design processes and integration with manufacturing methods to
successfully predict product performance. This approach
incorporates components that are based on simulations in the
laboratory. The results are combined with in-field testing to
determine degradation parameters. These approaches result in
improvements to product quality, performance, safety,
profitability, and customer satisfaction. Among the methods of
analyses included are: Accelerated Reliability Testing (ART)
Accelerated Durability Testing (ADT) System variability / input
variability Engineering risk versus time and expense
Over the past forty years, state/provincial and local governments
in the United States and Canada have provided foreign automakers
with approximately $4.80 billion in incentives in order to lure
light vehicles assembly plants to their areas. This has included
tax abatements, infrastructure construction, land giveaways, job
training programs, and other subsidies. As of early 2015, ten
foreign vehicle makers operated 20 light vehicles in developed
North America. Despite the fact that all ten of these automakers
have pursued a similar pattern-first exporting vehicles into the
United States and Canada before launching vehicle plants in
developed North America-each has followed its own specific
historical development path and has created its own unique growth
trajectory. This book provides a unique historical and qualitative
review of these ten vehicle makers, from their early beginnings to
their export entry into the United States and/or Canada through
early 2015. In addition, it chronicles the histories of more than a
dozen former automakers and potential future foreign light motor
vehicle assembly plants in the United States and Canada. This
includes the first foreign automaker to build its cars in the
United States, De Dion-Bouton of France in July 1900, the early
20th Century endeavors of Fiat, Mercedes, and Rolls Royce, and the
present day hopes of Chinese and Indian automakers. In the process,
the text also provides an assessment of the top competing states
and sites for any future plants, the possible incentives packages
governments may offer to attract such facilities, and an estimated
incentive value for each automaker. Overall, the goal of this book
is to expand the knowledge of policymakers at all tiers of
government in the United States and Canada and to help them take a
more holistic look at the pros and cons of attracting Automobile
Manufacturing FDI. It is hoped that this will enable them to make
more informed decisions when pursuing a new foreign motor vehicle
assembly plant. Its findings should also prove informative to urban
and regional planning, political science, sociology, economics,
labor, and international development scholars and students in North
America and worldwide.
Modeling and simulation of batteries, in conjunction with theory
and experiment, are important research tools that offer
opportunities for advancement of technologies that are critical to
electric motors. The development of data from the application of
these tools can provide the basis for managerial and technical
decision-making. Together, these will continue to transform
batteries for electric vehicles. This collection of nine papers
presents the modeling and simulation of batteries and the
continuing contribution being made to this impressive progress,
including topics that cover: Thermal behavior and characteristics
Battery management system design and analysis Moderately
high-fidelity 3D capabilities Optimization Techniques and
Durability . As electric vehicles continue to gain interest from
manufacturers and consumers alike, improvements in economy and
affordability, as well as adoption of alternative fuel sources to
meet government mandates are driving battery research and
development. Progress in modeling and simulation will continue to
contribute to battery improvements that deliver increased power,
energy storage, and durability to further enhance the appeal of
electric vehicles.
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