Information Technology in Automobile Industry

The automotive industry in the United States began in the 1890s and rapidly evolved into the largest in the world. However, the United States was overtaken as the largest automobile producer by Japan in the 1980s, and subsequently by China in 2008 ( "2013 production statistics".). The U.S. is currently second among the largest manufacturer in the world by volume, with approximately 8-10 million automobiles manufactured annually (World Motor Vehicle Data 2007). General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, all based in Metro Detroit dominated the automobile industry.

In 1990s, Toyota started manufacturing its cars in Belgium and in 1993, the company opened its European headquarters in Belgium (Chowdhury, 2015). In 1994, the company established a joint venture with Mitsubishi in Turkey to access Eurasian market and consequently begun manufacturing its cars from 2002 (Chowdhury, 2015). The company expanded its market into France, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, and finally opened global a manufacturing in UK (Chowdhury, 2015). Firms start the process of converting to multinational incremental by beginning with making exports to a targeted country where there is potential market, joint ventures, and ultimately begin production and open headquarter in order to become operational in that location (Chowdhury,

Corning has had a strong dedication to technology and innovation. However, heavy dependence on a single line of business of telecommunication led it to financial challenges. The case tells us about Corning’s strategic approach towards exploring new business prospects and large opportunities for its future sustainability. Corning’s road map for innovation in new market and technologies is systematic and structured. The dimension of this case is to answer the question how do entrepreneurs identify opportunities for new business ventures? According to Robert Baron, one

Today, Toyota is the world's third largest manufacturer of automobiles in terms of both unit sales and net sales. It is also the largest Japanese automotive manufacturer, producing more than 5.5 million vehicles per year, equivalent to one every six seconds. See Appendix 1 for a list of its guiding principles. Appendix 2 depicts excerpts from the company’s 2000 annual report showing their main goals for that year. The company has 12 manufacturing plants in Japan and approximately 54 manufacturing companies in 27 countries throughout the world. These plants produce vehicles and components under the Lexus and Toyota brand names and employ about one quarter of a million people worldwide. In total Toyota vehicles are marketed and sold in more than 160 countries and regions with the automotive business, including sales and finance of the vehicles, accounting for more than 90% of the company's total sales. Appendix 3 shows worldwide sales and appendix 4 shows the models produced in North American Toyota plants. North Americanization of Toyota Since the late 1980’s Toyota had made several moves that showed their commitment to what management called the North Americanization of the company. The idea was to increase car sales in the lucrative North American market by also introducing manufacturing plants that produced parts and assembled whole vehicles for

While car manufacturing is a global industry, automotive companies such as JLR operate in broader regions such as Europe and Asia. Three major trends were identified affecting car production in mature markets, the first was the fragmentation of mature markets, customers were demanding more choice, and this has made it difficult for manufacturers to obtain economies of scale, so cost had to be reduced and with the general

There are 200 component, tooling, design and engineering firms in Australia. All three companies are the subsidiaries of major overseas producers. Mitsubishi Motors closed its production in March 2008, though it remains in the market as an importer of a full range of vehicles (AustralianGovernment, 2009). In 2007, the market recorded sales of over one million vehicles for the first time. The number of passenger vehicles sold increased by 1.8% (on month to month basis) to 41,700 in April 2009. The rise was the largest monthly increase since November 2007, and is a sign of improvement instead of rising fuel prices and global economic turmoil.

Agility and economy are the most important premises in the BMW Group's worldwide production network. The group manufactures its products at 25 sites in over 13 countries on five continents: BMW automobiles are produced at 14 locations. BMW motorcycles are manufactured in Berlin, while MINI and Rolls-Royce production come from Great Britain.

Yet, the public perceptions may be at odds with the objective measures. In Toyota’s case, there have been indications that the quality level of the company’s products had fallen off in a span of few years. There are changes that have taken place during a period when most of the company’s close competitors, such as Fords, were producing more cost-effective and efficient automobiles. In addition, the company’s unique production approach and the emphasis on continuous improvement and learning coupled with a matrix structure are key reasons for the company’s leadership in the cat manufacturing industry. Toyota’s Production Systems (TPS) was founded in the principles of “Just-in-time. This approach has less opportunity for slack resources and focuses of the benefits of efficiency on the part of employees and reduction on waste resources (Griffin and Gregory, 5). Further, Toyota Company enacts its production system with the assistance of its human resources strategies, culture, and organizational structure. Toyota’s Production System emphasizes on learning and modesty when it comes to assessing past success and differentiated them from

Toyota has a manufacturing facility of the overseas of 50 in 27 countries, and is doing business expansion globally. Moreover, the Toyota car is sold by 160 countries of an overseas. The number of dealer is 8,485 dealers in the world (Expect Japan), and there are more than 270 dealers in Australia. We can buy Toyota’s product everywhere.

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Automobile industry of japan witnessed an awesome accomplishment with the growth of Toyota. It became the biggest maker in the worldwide business. Toyoda kiichiro was hesitant to invest in automobile sector. In the year 1933 the company started its production. In order to have cost efficiency they adopted the mass production technology.

The car manufacturing industry in Australia involved three main competitors including, Ford Australia, GM Holden and Toyota Australia. There were four but in 2008 Mitsubishi Australia, but stopped production of the last domestic Mitsubishi model the 380. Mitsubishi stopped the production of the large sedan because smaller cheaper lancer sedans were selling more due to the change of market in Australia. The Australian market usually comprised of large sedans, utes and wagons with usually large displacement engines. The Australian companies only produced large cars up until GM Holden realised that consumers want smaller more fuel efficient vehicles and produced the Holden Cruze in 2008. The Cruze saved Holden and gave the company a few more years to operate in Australia compared to Ford. Ford received bailouts from the government to continue to produce cars in Australia, but Ford never used the grants to manufacture a smaller, more fuel efficient car much similar to GM Holden did with the Cruze. This is why Ford Australia has stopped production before Toyota and Holden.

Lean manufacturing originated long before Toyota and Ford, however the thought that it originated with Toyota is flattering since they are the ones who perfected it. By creating the Toyota Production System (TPS), Toyota found a better way to produce large quantities of product efficiently with eliminating the waste factor and while cutting down cost. Taiichi Ohno a former Toyota vice president promoted the idea of JIT (Just-in-Time) which means “producing the necessary units in the necessary quantities at the necessary time.” (Monden) Which leads to Toyota’s ultimate goal in the TPS is to improve productivity for better return in investment. To have continuous flow in a production system Toyota sought out to achieve the concept of JIT and autonomation . Since the TPS is what creates the parts who monitors the JIT system? The kanban system which is an informational system that controls quantities being produce in each process. As the discussion carries on throughout this paper about Toyota and their use of the kanban system the topic

Tesla’s competing in the entire automotive industry. The automotive industry is comprised of General Motors, Toyota, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, Hyundai-Kia, Honda, and several others in the industry. Tesla has carved out a unique niche in the electric vehicle segment of the industry achieving 4.5% of the automotive market.

Customer relationship system or we called it CRM, which is the one of the information system that has been used by Prudential Assurance Malaysia Berhad. Customer relationship management is a type of software application. Employees can manage customer information by using CRM. The relationship between company and their customers can be grown in long-term and stable. This system’ primary concept is to keep the business operational through finding and maintaining clients. All departments in the same building can keep track of other department processes such as customer service. Technology is required for customer relationship system to organize and analyze business processes.