Auto Parts Industry Research Articles

Application of the OEE tool in an auto parts industry’s production line

The aim of this paper is to work on lean manufacturing's theory of tools in practice in a multinational auto parts industry responsible for the exhaust industry, located in state of São Paulo, Brazil. When use tools like OEE, TPM and Kaizen, it is possible to analyze the conditions of the equipment in the current scenario in production, proposing improvements such as professional maintenance planning, generating Kaizens, facilitating periodic activities (inspection, cleaning, lubrication and others) and training the employees to perform the autonomous maintenance, reducing the paras and faults of the equipment. was possible to optimize the OEE indicators: availability, performance and quality, resulting in a significantly better overall efficiency index.

완성차업체의 수요충격에 대한 부산 자동차부품업 총요소생산성 민감도 추정

완성차업체의 수요충격에 대한 부산 자동차부품업 총요소생산성 민감도 추정

Research on Japanese Auto Parts Industry before World War II: Focusing on the Actual Conditions and Establishment Background

Research on Japanese Auto Parts Industry before World War II: Focusing on the Actual Conditions and Establishment Background

Decision Optimization of Low-Carbon Dual-Channel Supply Chain of Auto Parts Based on Smart City Architecture

Affected by the Internet, computer, information technology, etc., building a smart city has become a key task of socialist construction work. The smart city has always regarded green and low-carbon development as one of the goals, and the carbon emissions of the auto parts industry cannot be ignored, so we should carry out energy conservation and emission reduction. With the rapid development of the domestic auto parts industry, the number of car ownership has increased dramatically, producing more and more CO2 and waste. Facing the pressure of resources, energy, and environment, the effective and circular operation of the auto parts supply chain under the low-carbon transformation is not only a great challenge, but also a development opportunity. Under the background of carbon emission, this paper establishes a decision-making optimization model of the low-carbon supply chain of auto parts based on carbon emission responsibility sharing and resource sharing. This paper analyzes the optimal decision-making behavior and interaction of suppliers, producers, physical retailers, online retailers, demand markets, and recyclers in the auto parts industry, constructs the economic and environmental objective functions of low-carbon supply chain management, applies variational inequality to analyze the optimal conditions of the whole low-carbon supply chain system, and finally carries out simulation calculation. The research shows that the upstream and downstream auto parts enterprises based on low-carbon competition and cooperation can effectively manage the carbon footprint of the whole supply chain through the sharing of responsibilities and resources among enterprises, so as to reduce the overall carbon emissions of the supply chain system.

An Analysis of Total Quality Management (TQM) within the Thai Auto Parts Sector

The study intended to investigate the factors that affect the total quality management (TQM) process in the 1,800 firm Thai auto parts industry. Automotive parts export shipments from Thailand are ranked 13th globally and are destined for over 100 countries, with Thailand’s combined automotive industry representing 12% of GDP. Therefore, with the authors understanding the importance of this economic sector, a research tool was developed, which contained a five-level scale to investigate 455 auto parts managers, executives, and owners’ opinions. Topics surveyed included the respondents’ opinions on the effects of knowledge management (KNG), product quality (QLY), strategic planning (STY), and technology and innovation (TIN) on the Thai auto part industry TQM process. The study’s eight hypotheses made use LISREL 9.1 software to analyze the final structural equation model (SEM). Results showed that all the model's variables had a positive influence on TQM, which can be combined to explain the variance of the factors affecting TQM (R2) by 78%. Additionally, the variables affecting TQM ranked in importance were STY, KNG, QLY, and TIN. Disruptive change has also arrived within the automotive sector, as Industry 4.0 technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI) are being used in the development of a new generation of autonomous and electric vehicles (EVs), making many current manufacturers' technologies and processes obsolete. Therefore, management and vendors must embrace these changes for their survival. The study's results highlight the necessity for international firms to embrace innovation and technological change to retain a competitive advantage or even their survival. Governments and educational institutions must also go the ‘extra mile' to support their domestic automotive and auto parts sectors.

Eco-innovation practices’ adoption in the automotive industry

PurposeEco-innovation is a relatively recent construct in the literature, which nowadays more and more researchers and academics consider as one of the strategies that generate a higher level of sustainable and business performance. However, little is known about the influence of eco-innovation practices on sustainable performance and business performance, particularly in the automotive and auto parts industry. Therefore, this paper aims to fill this knowledge gap and explore the aforementioned interdependence.Design/methodology/approachThe influence of eco-innovation practices on sustainable performance and business performance is investigated through a research framework consisting of 5 constructs, 25 items and 6 hypotheses derived from an extensive review of the literature. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 460 companies in the automotive and auto parts industry in Mexico. The data were analyzed through a confirmatory factor analysis, descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling.FindingsThe results obtained indicated that eco-innovation practices have a positive influence on both sustainable performance and business performance in the automotive and auto parts industry.Originality/valueThis paper provides further insightful evidence of the influence of eco-innovation practices on sustainable performance and business performance, particularly in the automotive and auto parts industry.

Colaboración entre centros públicos de investigación para el desarrollo regional: un análisis de caso en Aguascalientes, México

This article examines the economic, social and political context in which a strategic collaborative project based on the Triple Helix model to boost regional development emerges. The creation of a collaborative effort between public research centers to develop supply chains for the automotive and auto parts industry is taken as an example. It is used the case of the process of creation of the Center of Innovation and Technological Transfer of Aguascalientes for the Automotive Sector (CITTAA), in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The descriptive analysis emphasizes the time it took to set up the proposal, the short duration of a six-year term for the goal of promoting regional economic development, and the difficulties of establishing and promoting articulated collaboration between the actors of a triple helix.

Capitalism in China: The Case for International Solidarity

There is controversy in the UK labour movement over China. Arguments range from assertions that China remains a socialist state albeit in the primary stages to support for China on the grounds that a strong China is a counterbalance to US-led economic imperialism and military adventures. Putting the controversy aside, this article instead makes the case for the solidarity with Chinese workers and citizens on the receiving end of capitalist exploitation and state repression in the hinterlands and heartlands of this emerging global power. We equate resistance in China to resistance to authoritarianism in general, whether in the form of right-wing populism or one-party rule. Capitalist labour relations exist in China. Their reintroduction was a cornerstone of paramount leader Deng Xiaoping’s neoliberal strategy allowing a minority to get rich first. Which they did: the share of income earned by the top 10 percent of the population went from 27 percent in 1978 to 41 percent in 2015. In the same period, the share of the bottom 50 percent dropped from 50 percent to 27 percent1. China’s adoption of capitalism has lifted millions of people out of absolute poverty. But the cost of this transformation in terms of environmental degradation and social inequality must be a core concern of the international labour and trade union movement. Neoliberal globalisation teaches us that solidarity is not a national undertaking as capital and ideology cross borders with ease in search of new markets and opportunities for accumulation. We need to do the same. For example, trade unionists and activists everywhere can learn from the extraordinary strike wave in China’s auto parts industry in 2010 that generated wage rises of 20-30 percent. The global rise of populist authoritarianism and its nationalist ideologies renders global resistance even more important. In China, authoritarian rule has taken on an altogether more dangerous shade under Xi Jinping’s leadership as labour activists, feminists, minorities and human rights defenders and others have found to their cost2. Labour stat In China, capitalist labour relations are governed by laws that look reasonable on paper and indeed appear to buck the global neo-liberal trend of labour market deregulation. But they are widely ignored. The absence of core trade union rights such as freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining backed up by protection of the right to strike are collective rights denied to the Chinese working class. The notional right to strike was deleted from the Constitution of China in 1982 at precisely the time when China embarked on her journey from a command economy to a market economy. Nevertheless, it is not the case that capitalist labour relations in China allow predatory capitalists and their agents to operate at will. Labour scholars from different disciplines and perspectives such as Ching Kwan Lee, Pun Ngai, Chang Kai and Chris Chan acknowledge that the activism of the Chinese working class, including a reserve army of ruralurban migrants that numbers up to 250 million, has been central to a gradual tempering of capitalist exploitation in China. Capitalist exploitation has been institutionalised. A watershed moment in this process was the passing of three important labour-related laws in 2008 that most commentators agree were a response to rising levels of strikes and labour protests. The Labour Contract Law, the Labour Disputes Mediation and Arbitration Law and the Employment Promotion Law were testament to both the universalisation of capitalist labour relations in China; and Chinese Communist Party’s concern that the militancy and social unrest could develop into a threat to its one-party rule. In other words, the 2008 laws were an outcome of the growing capacity of a dramatically expanding working class to get its voice heard. The only legal trade union in China, the state-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), has failed to make its presence felt in capitalist firms and remains largely restricted to its traditional role as a welfare arm of the state in what is left of a restructured state sector i.e. good on picnics and birthdays for model workers; absent on collective bargaining and organising. Little wonder then that workers often take matters into their own...

Capitalism in China: The Case for International Solidarity

There is controversy in the UK labour movement over China. Arguments range from assertions that China remains a socialist state albeit in the primary stages to support for China on the grounds that a strong China is a counterbalance to US-led economic imperialism and military adventures. Putting the controversy aside, this article instead makes the case for the solidarity with Chinese workers and citizens on the receiving end of capitalist exploitation and state repression in the hinterlands and heartlands of this emerging global power. We equate resistance in China to resistance to authoritarianism in general, whether in the form of right-wing populism or one-party rule. Capitalist labour relations exist in China. Their reintroduction was a cornerstone of paramount leader Deng Xiaoping’s neoliberal strategy allowing a minority to get rich first. Which they did: the share of income earned by the top 10 percent of the population went from 27 percent in 1978 to 41 percent in 2015. In the same period, the share of the bottom 50 percent dropped from 50 percent to 27 percent1. China’s adoption of capitalism has lifted millions of people out of absolute poverty. But the cost of this transformation in terms of environmental degradation and social inequality must be a core concern of the international labour and trade union movement. Neoliberal globalisation teaches us that solidarity is not a national undertaking as capital and ideology cross borders with ease in search of new markets and opportunities for accumulation. We need to do the same. For example, trade unionists and activists everywhere can learn from the extraordinary strike wave in China’s auto parts industry in 2010 that generated wage rises of 20-30 percent. The global rise of populist authoritarianism and its nationalist ideologies renders global resistance even more important. In China, authoritarian rule has taken on an altogether more dangerous shade under Xi Jinping’s leadership as labour activists, feminists, minorities and human rights defenders and others have found to their cost2. Labour stat In China, capitalist labour relations are governed by laws that look reasonable on paper and indeed appear to buck the global neo-liberal trend of labour market deregulation. But they are widely ignored. The absence of core trade union rights such as freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining backed up by protection of the right to strike are collective rights denied to the Chinese working class. The notional right to strike was deleted from the Constitution of China in 1982 at precisely the time when China embarked on her journey from a command economy to a market economy. Nevertheless, it is not the case that capitalist labour relations in China allow predatory capitalists and their agents to operate at will. Labour scholars from different disciplines and perspectives such as Ching Kwan Lee, Pun Ngai, Chang Kai and Chris Chan acknowledge that the activism of the Chinese working class, including a reserve army of ruralurban migrants that numbers up to 250 million, has been central to a gradual tempering of capitalist exploitation in China. Capitalist exploitation has been institutionalised. A watershed moment in this process was the passing of three important labour-related laws in 2008 that most commentators agree were a response to rising levels of strikes and labour protests. The Labour Contract Law, the Labour Disputes Mediation and Arbitration Law and the Employment Promotion Law were testament to both the universalisation of capitalist labour relations in China; and Chinese Communist Party’s concern that the militancy and social unrest could develop into a threat to its one-party rule. In other words, the 2008 laws were an outcome of the growing capacity of a dramatically expanding working class to get its voice heard. The only legal trade union in China, the state-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), has failed to make its presence felt in capitalist firms and remains largely restricted to its traditional role as a welfare arm of the state in what is left of a restructured state sector i.e. good on picnics and birthdays for model workers; absent on collective bargaining and organising. Little wonder then that workers often take matters into their own...

Distribution Marketing Strategy of Goods from Manufacturers to the Consumer in the Auto Parts Industry in Thailand

Distribution Marketing Strategy of Goods from Manufacturers to the Consumer in the Auto Parts Industry in Thailand

Business Intelligence (bi) en dos organizaciones de la industria de autopartes en México

La evolución de las TIC y la generación de datos en demasía permiten a la organización tomar decisiones asertivas en función de las necesidades de sus consumidores, Business Intelligence (BI), implica gestionar de forma más efectiva el conocimiento organizacional que converge en las empresas. A partir de la integración de un modelo de cinco dimensiones se valoran las condiciones de adopción de un modelo de BI en dos empresas de la industria de autopartes, desde un enfoque cualitativo y con la metodología del estudio de caso. Los hallazgos mostraron que ambas organizaciones manifiestan un desempeño basado en el manejo de información interna, con indicadores respaldados en las tecnologías de información que tienen disponibles, con apertura para generarla y compartirla, bajo un enfoque hacia datos históricos, esto las ubica en el tercer nivel de madurez; por lo que si se quiere llevar a la adopción completa de este modelo se requerirá de inversión en automatización aunado a la capacitación de los empleados en las nuevas tecnologías; además de fomentar una cultura en pro de la apertura y pleno acceso a la información, para con ello poseer capacidad de respuesta al mercado y por ende su permanencia

Worker Activism and Enterprise Union Reform in China: A Case Study of Grassroots Union Agency in the Auto Parts Industry

ABSTRACTResearch on Chinese trade unions has privileged a state‐centred, structuralist approach, while the question of union agency has remained undertheorized. Seeking to overcome this limitation, this article examines the agency, the strategies and practice, and the limits and potentials of enterprise union reform in China's auto parts industry driven by worker activism since the wave of auto strikes in 2010. Drawing on in‐depth fieldwork conducted in Guangzhou and Chongqing between 2011 and 2017, the authors reveal variegated but constrained grassroots union agency and identify four key factors to explain the variations in the operation and reform of enterprise unions. Contrary to the common perception that Chinese trade unions are of no value to workers, the authors argue that, driven by worker activism and under specific circumstances, democratically elected enterprise unions are able to exploit certain operational space within the existing political and institutional constraints to carry out substantive collective bargaining and adaptive, incremental reforms, which have improved workers’ material well‐being and union representativeness and effectiveness. However, given the authoritarian regime and state‐controlled union structure, the space for grassroots union agency is severely restricted and contingent on broader political and economic environments. With growing state repression, the future of worker‐driven grassroots union reform is unclear.

Organizational Innovation Factors, Capabilities and Organizational Performance in Automotive Industry

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of external and internal innovation factors on organizational performance directly and through innovation capability in Iranian auto parts industries. This research used the quantitative research method and used the survey technique to gather data from 275 Iranian auto part manufacturing companies. The collected data was analysed using the structural equation modelling (SEM) based on Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique. The empirical results showed that the inclusion of organisational innovative capability has a profound effect on organisational performance of the selected Iranian auto parts companies. The findings have several theoretical and practical implications. The use of the resource-based theory for the Iranian manufacturing context is relevant and can be enhanced with different dimensions of innovation capability. In practical sense, Iranian auto part manufacturing organization should engage more in enhancing their innovation capability which will in turn magnify the role and effect of external and internal organizational factors.

Impacts of collaboration networks, operational performance and reverse logistics determinantson the performance outcomes of the auto parts Industry

Impacts of collaboration networks, operational performance and reverse logistics determinantson the performance outcomes of the auto parts Industry

A quantitative model for optimization and disruption mitigation in a supply chain (Auto parts case study)

However, there is a lot of capital and plenty of manpower in the auto spare part industry, the enterprises and supply chains of this industry do not perform well in our country. This research models a three-level supply chain with multiple manufacturers, distribution centers and retailers, to minimize the total cost by taking into account various disruptions. The database of two active car spare parts companies for five strategic products in one year has been used. Then, the mathematical model is analyzed by considering disruptions based on three different sales policies: back orders, lost sales and outsourcing. Besides, to evaluate the performance of the model some numerical examples are used and analyzed to determine that algorithm works. Model solved efficiently by MATLAB software. The results show that the proposed algorithm of this research can neutralize the effect of the disruptions and cause a significant reduction in total cost of the system. The model is useful for helping decision makers to adopt an active approach to maintaining business benefits when disruptions take place in the supply chain.

La inversión asiática en el sector automotor de la región del Bajío, México

The Asian investment has had an important presence in productive sectors considered motors of the Mexican economy, and the automotive and auto parts industry is one of them . Its economic dynamism has grown especially since the entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement (nafTa), in 1994 . Since the 1980s, the economic policy of Mexico had among its objectives the growth of International Trade . In addition, it is considered that foreign direct investment (fdi) is extremely important for the creation of jobs; and although there have been few advances in this aspect; the expectation of creating productive linkages with the Mexican industry persists . Although, according to macroeconomic statistics, progress has been made thanks to this public policy, the truth is that only significant impacts of its location are observed at the regional level .The automotive companies of Asian capital are an essential part of the geographical configuration of the automotive and auto parts industry around the Bajío region, which is considered a very important corridor for it . For this reason, the present work focuses on identifying its size, structure and dynamism in this region since the entry into force of nafTa . Regional economic indicators and the causes that have contributed to the growth of Asian investment in the automotive sector are analyzed .

Research of Auto Parts Assembly Line Simulation and Optimization Based On TOC

In view of the current situation of auto parts industry and the characteristics of assembly line, this paper adopts the constraint theory to study. Through the arena modeling and simulation means to find the “bottleneck” of the auto parts enterprise assembly line. And then develop the optimization program for eliminating or transferring the “bottleneck”. And use ECRS (Eliminate, Combine, Rearrange, and Simplify) analysis to improve the entire assembly process. Achieved the purpose of optimizing the allocation of resources and improving the rate of output.

Relación del contrato psicológico con la intención de compartir conocimiento tácito y transferencia intraorganizacional

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><strong>Objetivo - </strong><span>analizar si el contrato psicológico relacional impacta a la transferencia de conocimiento tácito dentro de la organización, a través de la mediación de la intención para compartir este activo intangible.</span></p><p><strong>Método - </strong><span>se realizó una investigación cuantitativa, de alcance correlacional, de diseño no experimental transversal, y se utilizó una muestra no probabilística en la recolección de 346 cuestionarios de colaboradores mando medio en la industria de autopartes en Ciudad Juárez Chihuahua, México. El análisis de los datos se llevó a cabo mediante el modelado de ecuaciones estructurales utilizando Mínimos Cuadrados Parciales (PLS). </span></p><p><strong>Resultados - </strong><span>se confirma que el contrato psicológico relacional influye positivamente tanto con la intención de compartir conocimiento tácito, como con la transferencia de conocimiento tácito dentro de la organización y la influencia que recibe ésta de la intención de compartir dicho conocimiento.</span></p><p><strong>Limitaciones - </strong><span>los resultados obtenidos son evidencia única y exclusivamente de la industria de autopartes en esta ciudad, los cuales pueden ser diferentes a otras poblaciones, debido al contexto cultural y sector productivo. </span></p><p><strong>Principales hallazgos - </strong><span>existen fuertes implicaciones entre las variables estudiadas y este sector productivo, ya que las organizaciones reconocen la importancia y significado del conocimiento tácito de sus empleados, por lo que deben comprometerse a mantener buenas relaciones interpersonales e incentivos motivacionales para sus empleados con la finalidad de que este activo intangible sea compartido. </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p> </p>

Comparative Analysis on the Auto Parts Imports Intensity Index and Implications on Korean SMEs

This paper examines the current status of the auto parts industry by creating the Auto Parts Imports Intensity Index. COMTRADE data from 2000 to 2017 was used for imports of automotive and auto parts to see how imports of finished car and auto parts have different interdependent relationships in specific countries. Two categories were selected for international comparison; the first category includes automotive manufacturing developing countries such as China, India, Indonesia and Russia. And the second category includes developing countries that just import cars, which are typically Middle East Countries. The results found that direct exports from Korea shows a weakening trend over-all. The decreasing sales growth of automobiles brings the high values of index specially in Chinese market. In contrast, the index value shows balanced pattern in most of countries for German cars. The different patterns between Korea and Germany can be partially explained by the excessive vertical industry structure of Korea and empowering SMEs of Germany. Implications are the following; first, the government should support SMEs to enhance their capabilities like German SMEs. Second, opportunities for auto parts industries are still strongly present. As developing countries in the first category increase their local production, the demand for reliable low-cost car parts has also increased. Therefore, Korean auto parts SMEs should explore these possibilities through the inclusion to global value chain. As for the second category, targeted efforts to diversify markets are required.

Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chain Management: Thai Auto Parts Industry

Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chain Management: Thai Auto Parts Industry