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Coping with Variety
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Flexible productive systems for product variety in the auto industry
Coping with Variety
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Coping with Variety book
Flexible productive systems for product variety in the auto industry
Edited ByYannick Lung, Jean-Jacques Chanaron, Takahiro Fujimoto, Daniel Raff
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1999
eBook Published 1 August 2018
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 438
eBook ISBN 9780429452512
Subjects Social Sciences
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Lung, Y., Chanaron, J.-J., Fujimoto, T., & Raff, D. (Eds.). (1999). Coping with Variety: Flexible productive systems for product variety in the auto industry (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429452512
ABSTRACT
First published in 1999, this book explores pint points, compares and dates the development of product differentiation and variety. This book also analyses’ how firms have embraced a variety of ways of efficiently managing this verity though production, the design of the product as well as in the relations with the suppliers and distributors.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |32 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|30 pages
Product Variety, Productive Organisation, and Industrial Models
ByJean-Jacques Chanaron, Yannick Lung
part Part I|114 pages
Pathways to Flexible Mass Production
chapter 2|23 pages
G.M. and the Evolving Industrial Organisation of American Automobile Manufacturing in the Interwar Years
ByDaniel M.G. Raff
chapter 3|23 pages
Product Variety in the French Automobile Industry: A Look through the Past
ByJean-Louis Loubet
chapter 4|30 pages
The Progressive Emergence of Product Variety in the Japanese Automobile Industry
ByMarie-Claude Bélis-Bergouignan, Yannick Lung
chapter 5|36 pages
The Historical Evolution of Product Variety in the Auto Industry: An International Comparative Study
ByBruno Jetin
part Part II|112 pages
Alternative Flexible Production Systems for Product Variety
chapter 7|11 pages
A Flexible Organisation for Mini-Lot Production: The Emergence of Mini Carmakers in Japan
ByMasayoshi Ikeda, Yoichiro Nakagawa
chapter 8|32 pages
Developments in Assembly System Design: The Volvo Experience
ByTomas Engström, Dan Jonsson, Lars Medbo
chapter 9|35 pages
Flexibility through Modularity: Experimentations with Fractal Production in Brazil and in Europe
ByYannick Lung, Mario Sergio Salerno, Mauro Zilbovicius, Ana Valeria Carneiro Dias
part Part III|132 pages
Managing Flexible Production Systems
chapter 10|26 pages
Capability Building and Over-Adaptation: A Case of Tat Design’ in the Japanese Auto Industry
ByTakahiro Fujimoto
chapter 11|27 pages
Supplier Relations and Performance in Europe, Japan and the US: The Effect of the Voice/Exit Choice
ByMari Sako, Susan R. Helper
chapter 12|21 pages
Concurrent Engineering and Institutional Learning: A Comparison of French and Japanese Component Suppliers
ByYveline Lecler, Jacques Perrin, Marie-Claire Villeval
chapter 13|29 pages
The Production, Distribution, and Repair of Automobiles: New Relationships and New Competencies
ByJean-Jacques Chanaron, Bernard Jullien
chapter 14|27 pages
Inter-Firm Relationships and Industrial Models
ByEtienne de Banville, Jean-Jacques Chanaron
part |18 pages
Conclusion
