Understanding The Auto Part Manufacturing Industry

The Ford Motor Company’s Supply Chain Management ABSTRACT The influx of foreign automobiles that flood the United States market is higher than ever before and American companies are struggling to adapt to this decrease in market share. Ford is one of the organizations that has restructured its supply chain strategy to better integrate suppliers into their system reducing cost and

The heavy equipment manufacturing industry, more commonly referred to as “machinery manufacturing,” includes construction equipment, mining equipment, and agricultural machinery. Construction machinery includes earthmoving equipment, concrete equipment and road equipment such as cranes, loaders, draglines, mixers, pavers, and excavators that can be used in the building and mining industries. Agricultural equipment generally refers to compact tractors, combine harvesters, and other farm equipment, while the mining equipment market includes underground mining equipment, portable drilling rigs and parts, crushing machinery, and other screening, washing, and combination equipment.

The automotive component & Fabrication Plant, ACF, was the original plant site for Bridgeton Industries, a major supplier of components for the domestic automotive industry. All of the ACF’s production was sold to the Big-Three domestic automobile manufactures. Its main competitors were local suppliers and other Bridgeton plants. This company did very well but recently it became less effective when foreign competition and scarce, expensive gasoline caused domestic loss of market share. For boost its selling, it made four criteria, quality, customer service, technical capability, and competitive cost position to evaluate three classifications of products.

On another note, manufacturing engineers and quality engineers play a key role in the development of new vehicles. Manufacturing engineers work with the design engineers to ensure the vehicle they have designed can be produced in a high volume environment. According to Automotive Engineering HQ, an international headquarters for automotive engineering teams, “[Manufacturing engineers] will review how all the parts are assembled to ensure that they can develop a process that will be able to assemble and install everything from the circuit boards in the radio all the way to the bumper of the vehicle”. Creating the most efficient method of assembly is the chief responsibility of the manufacturing team; additionally, working alongside the manufacturing engineers, test engineers implement check points in the assembly process to guarantee correct assembly and functionality. Comparatively, “Quality engineers are responsible for overseeing all aspects of the design, development and production processes to make sure that the end product will be as robust and meet the highest quality standards possible” (Automotive). Particularly in the automotive industry, the role of quality engineer is vital given that errors or flaws in the product can cause costly recalls or even death; in addition, quality engineers are involved on all levels from supplier

In the contemporary China’s economy, it is no doubt that Auto parts Industry has become one of the fastest growing industries which plays a major role in the development of the domestic manufacture as well as the GDP Growth.

Several factors have affected how the American auto industry now positions itself on the world market, and big changes have been made to reflect this new direction. The introduction of new technologies in vehicles, the growing market for cars in new developing markets, the impact of the industry on the environment, legislative responses and demands, as well as the increased expectations from consumers, are some of the factors. More international cars are being designed, manufactured and bought by American consumers and exported to foreign markets today than those exclusively manufactured by American companies, redefining the American auto industry, while having a positive impact on its economy. International brands accounted for 45% of total sales in the U.S. in 2013 and have now risen to 59% of the market, and continue to grow. While the amount of American cars has decreased in the local U.S. market share to international ones, the increase of foreign car production on U.S. soil has had the effect of creating new jobs for Americans both in the auto industry as well as in related new industries. The industry has seen huge growth numbers in the last few years with more growth expected.

Automated manufacturing is another application of automation and by far, it is the most important and useful in the United States. This practice of automation is used to produced things in a factory way. Consequently, many of the products that consumers purchase are the result of automated manufacturing. Some of these products include automobiles, refrigerators, dishwashers and videogame consoles like the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. Today there are numerous industries applying automated manufacturing including the airline, automotive, mining, oil and food production industries (Vassar).

The UK automobile industry has been best known for the high end and sports cars such as Aston Martin, Jaguar, Bentley, Land Rover, McLaren, Lotus, Daimler, Mini and Rolls-Royce. There are also volume car manufacturers who have a major presence in the UK such as Nissan, Ford, Toyota, and Honda. The UK automobile manufacturing industry had a total turnover of 52.5billion euros in 2008 which is divided as 26.6 billion from exports. Close to 1.5 million passenger cars were produced with another 200,000 being commercial vehicles. The UK automobile industry employs about 180,000 people directly with another 600,000 being employed in automobile supplies, retail sales and service centers. The UK automobile industry also consists of the 3.2 million engines that are produced which also contribute significantly to the supply for the automobile manufacturers. The auto racing and motorsport industry also employs about 39,000 people with a turnover of about 6 billion euros. As a result of the huge turnover of the UK automobile industry which translates to huge tax returns for the government and the thousands upon thousands of jobs that the industry creates both directly and indirectly, the UK automobile industry is considered to be highly beneficial to the UK economy(Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business and Enterprise Committee and Luff, 2009).

Among the industries at the forefront is the automotive sector. With a skilled workforce and lower wages, producing automotive part and assembling quality cars can be done at a significantly lower cost than in the US while still maintaining the quality that consumer 's demand. Ranking among the top sixty companies operating in all of Latin America (in terms of net sales in $US billions) as of December 31, 2004 are General Motors ($10.5 billion), Daimler Chrysler ($9.2 billion), Delphi Corporation ($5.1 billion), and Ford Motor Company ($3.9 billion). (Brown, 2005) Of those

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Auto Zone’s industry would be the aftermarket parts industry. This industry would include the wholesale and retail sales of vehicle parts, tools, accessories, and fluids mainly for automotive use. A wide array of stores sell these products either online or at their brick and mortar locations. Some of stores include, Advance Auto Parts, O’Reilly’s Auto Parts, NAPA, Wal-Mart and Amazon.

A malfunctioning car can be a tremendous source of stress for any driver because this can be an inconvenient and expensive problem to experience. This is particularly true when you are needing to have a component of the car replaced. In these situations, you may be able to reduce the cost of your repairs by opting for aftermarket car parts. Yet, this economical option for car parts is often misunderstood, and knowing the truth behind the follow misconceptions should make you feel more confident in your decision about using aftermarket car parts to repair your vehicle.

Production Equipment: Chinese auto industry was 10-15 years behind the global auto industry development in the period of 1997-1998. Most manufacturers would use second-hand equipments at that time. Therefore the power of suppliers in production equipment was low.

Today, the automotive industry is one the top profitable industries in U.S. and all around the world. More than 1.5 million people involved in different segments such as engineering, designing, ordering, sell, and marketing. As a result of this statement, automotive industry has huge effects on employees, customer support, jobs vacancies, revenue and finally GDP which is the most important part of the economy for any countries (Statista Portal, 2016).

This work is done to study the improvement of the quality in automobile industry. This chapter consists three sections named as “Problem definition”, “Objectives” and “Methodology of the study” respectively. The section 3.1 named as “Problem definition” describes the challenge or difficulty that is to be solved. The solution may be achieved after fulfilling the objective by using some sub-objectives that are described in section 3.2 named as “Objectives”. The methodology described in section 3.3 in details. This methodology has been devised keeping in mind the view of “Problem definition” and the “Objectives” that are suggested for the fulfilment of the solution for the problem.