The effective reorganization of BMW Group applied to the New MINI - New strategies in the automotive manufacturing processes, sales and marketing (Paperback)

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1,9, Hogeschool Zeeland (Economics), language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: The story of the automobile manufacturer production can not be told without the story of Henry Ford, who was one of the pioneers constructing his first horseless carriage in 1896. He incorporated the Ford Motor Company in 1903, proclaiming I will build a car for the great multitude. As predicted he did so in 1908 offering a Model T for $ 950. This model heralds the beginning of the motor age. The car evolved from a former luxury item for the well-to-do to essential transportation for the ordinary man. Ford also revolutionized automobile manufacturing, in 1914 the Ford plant used innovation production techniques and was able to turn out a complete chassis every 95 minutes. That was a revolution in the automobile manufacturing at the time, because the former production time took about 730 minutes to turn out a complete chassis Ford achieved that fast production time by using a constantly moving assembly line, subdivision of labor, careful coordination of operations and he began to pay nearly double the wages offered by their competitors. His innovations made him an international celebrity in the industrial revolution and he was one of the first who thought about effective organization to achieve a higher productivity. Ford's methods that changed the automobile production were perhaps not mainly the introduction of the assembly line, his goal was also to constantly standardizing the use of craftsmen. That firstly resulted in a high product variety despite in fact that they had been made using the same drawing. Secondly a lot of time was spent in fitting the parts together. These facts influenced major loss in productivity and under such circumstances a real mass-production was not possible. But by standardizing components and developing work routines was the first sc

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Imprint:	Diplom.de
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2004
First published:	August 2004
Authors:	Johannes-Cornelius Adari • Henrik Thrane • Pascale Taube
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	90
ISBN-13:	978-3-8386-8191-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General
LSN:	3-8386-8191-6
Barcode:	9783838681917

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