This book examines how the current global economic crisis has impacted the global automotive industry from an operations and supply chain perspective. It presents an empirical and theoretical background to help long and short term planning for organisations experiencing adverse trading conditions. Material innovations in automotive technologies are also presented in this book. The contribution of materials to automobile technologies ranges over driving performance, exhaust gas purification, and improved fuel efficiency. In addition to different types of new materials, the authors discuss innovative manufacturing processes that can be used to substitute current materials in modern motorcars to enable them to meet the technical and economic challenges that the automotive industry is now facing. A new low overhead hybrid assessment method that has been designed specifically for small-to-medium-sized (SMEs) organizations is analyzed. Moreover, automotive assembly plants are very unique as the variety, nature and frequencies of jobs are more extensive than those observed in other workplaces. As a result, automotive assembly workers are often exposed to major ergonomic risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders (MDD). The authors examine the aforementioned problem in terms of automotive assembly LBP prevalence, symptoms and risk factors. The role of ergonomics in shaping the evolution of the automotive assembly plant is discussed as well.
Stuart K. Drummond & Gordan A Maxwell
Automotive Industry [PDF ebook]
Technical Challenges, Design Issues and Global Economic Crisis
Automotive Industry [PDF ebook]
Technical Challenges, Design Issues and Global Economic Crisis
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Formato PDF ● Pagine 258 ● ISBN 9781617615658 ● Editore Stuart K. Drummond & Gordan A Maxwell ● Casa editrice Nova Science Publishers ● Pubblicato 2016 ● Scaricabile 3 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7228532 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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