Shrink rap: Auto execs talk smaller game - Industry downsizes tooling, processes for faster, cheaper manufacturing

摘要

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Rising from the financial beating that many took four years ago, automotive manufacturers have a new vision of how to operate in the future that is smaller and cheaper than in the past. And they mean literally smaller. As in smaller factory tools, smaller work cells, shorter assembly lines and smaller buildings. Or maybe no buildings at all.