| Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Product Variety, Productive Organisation, and Industrial Models / Jean-Jacques Chanaron, Yannick Lung -- Pathways to Flexible Mass Production -- G.M. and the Evolving Industrial Organisation of American Automobile Manufacturing in the Interwar Years / Daniel M.G. Raff -- Product Variety in the French Automobile Industry: A Look through the Past / Jean-Louis Loubet -- The Progressive Emergence of Product Variety in the Japanese Automobile Industry / Marie-Claude Belis-Bergouignan, Yannick Lung -- The Historical Evolution of Product Variety in the Auto Industry: An International Comparative Study / Bruno Jetin -- Alternative Flexible Production Systems For Product Variety -- Beyond Flexibility: Toyota's Robust Process-Flow Architecture / Kazuhiro Mishina -- A Flexible Organisation for Mini-Lot Production: The Emergence of Mini Carmakers in Japan / Masayoshi Ikeda, Yoichiro Nakagawa -- Developments in Assembly System Design: The Volvo Experience / Tomas Engstrom, Dan Jonsson, Lars Medbo -- Flexibility through Modularity: Experimentations with Fractal Production in Brazil and in Europe / Yannick Lung, Mario Sergio Salerno, Mauro Zilbovicius, Ana Valeria Carneiro Dias -- Managing Flexible Production Systems -- Capability Building and Over-Adaptation: A Case of 'Fat Design' in the Japanese Auto Industry / Takahiro Fujimoto -- Supplier Relations and Performance in Europe, Japan and the US: The Effect of the Voice/Exit Choice / Mari Sako, Susan R. Helper -- Concurrent Engineering and Institutional Learning: A Comparison of French and Japanese Component Suppliers / Yveline Lecler, Jacques Perrin and Marie-Claire Villeval -- The Production, Distribution, and REpair of Automobiles: New Relationships and New Competencies / Jean-Jacques Chanaron and Bernard Jullien -- Inter-Firm Relationships and Industrial Models / Etienne de Banville and Jean-Jacques Chanaron -- Conclusion / Takahiro Fujimoto and Daniel Raff |
| Summary |
First published in 1999, this bookdefines, dates and compares the development of product differentiation and variety. This book also analyses how firms have embraced a variety of ways of efficiently managing this variety though production, the design of the product as well as in the relations with the suppliers and distributors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 11, 2019) |
| Subject |
Automobile industry and trade -- Production control
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Flexible manufacturing systems.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Automobile Industry.
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Automobile industry and trade -- Production control
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Flexible manufacturing systems
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Kraftfahrzeugindustrie
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Produktionssystem
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Productiemanagement.
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Auto-industrie.
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Flexibele productiesystemen.
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Automação industrial.
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Indústria automobilística.
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Fabrication, Systèmes flexibles de.
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Industrie automobile -- Automatisation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lung, Yannick, editor
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Chanaron, Jean-Jacques, editor
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Fujimoto, Takahiro, 1955- editor.
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Raff, Daniel M. G., editor
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| ISBN |
9780429452512 |
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0429452519 |
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9780429839924 |
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0429839928 |
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