Project Report to International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP), M.I.T.International Assembly Plant Study

摘要

INTRODUCTION:During the past fiscal year, we have worked closely with a number of researchers from aroundthe world to develop a questionnaire that will provide us with a fuller understanding of the value-chainissues that surround current automobile manufacturing. While centered on the assembly plant, we arealso looking at the interface between the plants and their suppliers, as well as the plants and theirdistributors. We will summarize these efforts, as well as our timetable for data collection. In this writeupwe are focusing only on the work undertaken in relation to assembly plants. We have also doneextensive work in the Modularization/Outsourcing project that is helping to pave the way for some of theassembly plant work; please refer to the separate report on that project.