Abstract China’s science and technology have become increasingly mature in today’s society, various fields of society will actively apply relevant advanced technologies to reshape the original operating model during development process. In particular, application range automation has more extensive, because itself advantages cannot be replaced by many other traditional technologies. It can fund...

In recent years, the management issue in the Japanese automobile industry playing a key role in Japanese manufacturing is “worldwide uniform quality and simultaneous production launch,” in response to current globalization. In this corporate management environment, the “key to success in global production” is the reinforcement of product power, or the “simultaneous achievement of QCD.” In order...

Background: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) may involve all parts of the body, and have been a worldwide problem. Employed women are two to five times more likely to report such problems, and assembly lines suspected to induce more WMSDs because of high rate of repetitive motions. Methods: The aim of this study to determine the prevalence of WMSDs in women workers of an automobi...

We present a unified multi-agent technology for decision making support in production planning and scheduling, manufacturing simulation in and supply chain management. The technology has been tested on several industrial cases and is used in a daily production planning processes of one important automobile industry supplier in the Czech Republic.

In this study, by predicting the form of next generation automobile manufacturing, author hereby establishes a “New Automobile Global Manufacturing System” (NAGMS) utilizing new total linkage “Dual Methodology” surpassing JIT. Specifically, NAGMS contains hardware system with five core elements “TDS, TPS, TMS, TIS & TJS”, and software two “Customer Science Principle (CSP) Strategic Stratifi...

The current members of Strategic Worldwide Transportation 2020 include ArvinMeritor, Bendix, Bosch, Continental Automotive Systems, FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Nissan Technical Center North America, and Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America. Information about Strategic Worldwide Transportation 2020 is available at: http:/...