Vehicle and transport manufacturing industries

Written by experts on innovation and growth, this book provides the necessary tools to systematically develop and sustain profitable innovation pipelines.

This book, originally published in 1994, explores the effects of federal policies on the US auto industry in the 1970s and 80s which were designed to save jobs and help the domestic industry become more competitive.

Better public policies can make the road smoother for self-driving vehicles and the society that soon will depend on them.

A behind-the-scenes look at Lexus s surprising twenty-year success story in a revised new edition In the 1980s, German brands BMW and Mercedes-Benz dominated the luxury car market and had little reason to fear competition from Japan.

The rapid takeoff of the continent-sized national economies and the increasing expense of extraction have led to strong tensions in petrol prices and a race towards alternative driving systems.

The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years.

In this compelling, readable narrative, Joe Sherman explores virtually every aspect of the Saturn project, America's biggest and most publicized industrial success of the last decade.

A history of the British automotive manufacturer and an analysis of what went wrong.

The 1965 Canada-United States Automotive Trade agreement fundamentally reshaped relations between the automotive business and the state in both countries and represented a significant step toward the creation of an integrated North American economy.

This book defines, develops, and examines the foundations of the APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) methodology.

Originally published in 1999 after a decade of research and extensive interviews with some of Toyota's top executives, this book examines organizational purpose: what it is, how it is crafted, how does it relate to strategy and objectives and how does it relate to decisions and actions that ultimately produce organizational results.

The fascinating story of a century-old automobile dynasty Fiat is one of the world's largest automakers, but when it made headlines by grabbing control of a bankrupt Chrysler in 2009 it was unknown in the U.

How could one company General Motors meet disaster on one continent and achieve explosive growth on another at the very same time?

In 1962, South Korea assembled just 1,100 new automobiles.

This textbook draws on the authors' experience gained by teaching courses for engineering students on e.

Since the doi moi reforms in 1986, Vietnam has experienced a dramatic socioeconomictransformation.

These 3-volume proceedings includes selected and reviewed papers from CONAT 2024 - the 13th edition of the International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering, held in Brasov, Romania, in November 2024.

Documents the first sixty years of Ford Motor Company''s international expansion, tracing its global business expansion across six continents.

Affordable is not typically the first adjective used to describe an electric automobile.

With the advancements in sensor and computation technologies, connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) services are being tested and deployed on public roads, sharing the road with human- driven vehicles (HVs).

This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production in Belgium and Spain.

Urban expert John Rossant and business journalist Stephen Baker look beyond the false promises of the past to examine the real future of transportation and the repercussions for the world’s cities, the global economy, the environment, and our individual lives.

The bestselling guide to Toyota's legendary philosophy and production system-updated with important new frameworks for driving innovation and quality in your businessOne of the most impactful business guides published in the 21st Century, The Toyota Way played an outsized role in launching the continuous-improvement movement that continues unabated today.

Trace the evolution of the supercar through the technology that drives it.

This book analyzes the multi-faceted scandal that has tarnished the reputation of the United Auto Workers (UAW), an iconic union revered for its commitment to union democracy and ethical practices, showing what went wrong to lead the spread of corruption and how to remedy it.

Transform your company's critical operations-and its destiny-through a powerful kaizen-focused strategy designed for 21st century efficiencyA pioneer of the operational excellence movement that continues to transform businesses across the world, Masaaki Imai takes you to the next step of continuous improvement developing an overall strategy for measuring your company s operational performance and improving processes in ways that boost efficiency and gain competitiveness.

This book looks at the industrial policies of Southeast Asian economies in their motor vehicle industries from early import substitution to policy-making under the more liberalised WTO policy regime.

Vehicle, road, sign, and signal lighting are provided to enable drivers to reach their destinations quickly and safely.

As part of a 1950s study dealing with various phases of the impact of mass production on human behaviour, this volume, originally published in 1956 and now a classic of its time examines the technological environment and the foreman within management, from the foreman's point of view.

In this book, author Nate Furuta, former chair and CEO of Toyota Boshoku America Inc.

This book is the first independent exploration of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) institutional history.

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.

How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industryIn factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors.

Toyota doesn't just produce cars; it produces talented people.

The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.

This book, originally published in 1985, examines the development of the car industry in Coventry within both its local context and the wider economic environment.

Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country’s most important economic sector, in the post-war period.

How could one company General Motors meet disaster on one continent and achieve explosive growth on another at the very same time?

This book, originally published in 1967, takes the automobile industry experience as a basis for a wider view of industrial relations, trends and developments of the 1950s and 60s.

In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B.

Originally published in 1997 and now re-issued with some updated material, this chronology lists the major events in the history of the automobile.

Since the early 1980s, Japanese firms have massively globalized their production operations and have shown superb competitive powers in global markets.

This book is one of the first critical analyses of the automobile industry in India.

How did a major corporation manage to turn itself around while Wall Street and others continued to predict its slow death?

This book is the first to fully explore the short- and long-term impact of the global electric car rollout on the supply of raw materials.

The definitive inside account of Toyota's greatest crisis-and lessons you can apply to your own company"e;Those who write off Toyota in the current climate of second guessing and speculation are making a profound mistake and need to read this book to get the facts.

This book, originally published in 1994, explores the effects of federal policies on the US auto industry in the 1970s and 80s which were designed to save jobs and help the domestic industry become more competitive.

Analysing developments in digital technologies and institutional changes, this book provides an overview of the current frenetic state of transformation within the global automobile industry.

This book criticizes the widespread view that the 1997 Asian crisis was due to 'crony capitalism' and puts the blame instead on misguided liberalization.