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Automotive: Page 139
Auto Suppliers in Financial Squeeze as Automakers Demand Deep Cost Cuts, Local Production
Automotive suppliers are under mounting pressure to satisfy two conflicting customer demands: to cut costs and to open more factories in fast-growing emerging markets so that they can be closer to their customers' production plants. Striking the right balance between cost and proximity in global manufacturing networks will be one of the industry's greatest challenges, according to a report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), conducted in partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA. The report is titled The Proximity Paradox: Balancing Auto Suppliers' Manufacturing Networks.
A Glimpse at the Factory of the Future
What will the typical factory look like five years from now?
Lubricants Market to See Nearly 2 Percent Growth Through 2020, Study Finds
The global lubricants market is estimated to reach a demand totaling 44,165 kilo tons by 2020, up from 39,140 kilo tons in 2013, according to a report from Transparency Market Research. The increase is based on growth rates of 1.72 percent between 2014 and 2020.
Automakers Are Bound to Design, Build and Sell Anywhere
Analyst Insight: Car ownership in developing economies is on the rise. By 2020, annual world vehicle production could reach 85 to 90 million units. That will mean another 75 to 100 plants, each producing around 300,000 cars a year, will be needed, essentially in or close to the world's fastest-developing countries. Automakers have to create new global production strategies to serve these multiple diverse markets. – Pierfrancesco Manenti, Vice President, Research, SCM World
Russia's Light-Vehicle Market Takes a Major Hit
The Russian light-vehicle market suffered a highly accelerated decline in sales in January 2015 due to the ongoing macroeconomic stress the market is facing, recording a 24.4 percent year-on-year decline to 115,390 units, according to the latest data released by the Association of European Businesses.
3D Printing Has Accomplished So Much Already - Where Can It Go From Here?
Before we ask where 3D printing is taking us, let's look at what has been already achieved or is near achievement across markets beyond printing prototypes, toys and models.
How Long Will It Be Before the Entire Car Can Be 3D-Printed?
Efficient supply chains can be identified by a handful of components: proximity, flexibility and minimal waste. Now, the automotive industry is hoping to capture some of these same benefits through the use of 3D printing.
Via the Internet of Things, Automotive Industry Presents the Connected Car
The Internet of Things (IoT) is currently the big thing in technology, and the automotive version of the IoT is the Connected Car.
How Supply Chain Affects Corporate Reputation
A company's reputation rests on much more than the quality of the products that it makes.
Auto Sales Expected to Continue Unbroken Recovery Since Worst of Economic Recession
With 2015 off to a good start, IHS Automotive forecasts global automotive sales for 2015 to reach 88.6 million, an increase of 2.4 percent over 2014, continuing an unbroken five-year run of sales recovery and growth from the low point set in the depth of the Great Recession in 2009. However, a slowdown is being signaled with just two of the high-potential BRIC markets likely to see increased sales this year.
CDM Media Announces Partnership with SupplyChainBrain
Automobile Market Sees Good Growth in Europe, Though Mostly in Western Countries
Passenger car demand in the European Union rose for the first time in six years during 2014, according to the latest data published by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA). Registrations during the year grew by 5.7 percent year on year (y/y) to 12.55 million units. December was also the 16th month in succession of gains, with registrations having grown during the month by 4.7 percent y/y to 951,329 units.
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