General Motors plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs this year. Ford is expected to close four plants that employ about 7,500 people, and recently announced plans to cut about 4,000 more salaried jobs in addition to the 2,700 it has already eliminated in 2005.
Faced with increased demand for its switch-cabinet cooling units, heat exchangers, heaters and filter fans, Pfannenberg GMbH (Hamburg, Germany) had no choice but to take stock of its assembly processes in an effort to weed out inefficiencies.
The Airbus Consortium (Toulouse, France) plant in Bremen, Germany, manufactures wing components such as landing flaps, producing approximately 2.5 million metal parts annually for the entire range of Airbus aircraft.
CHICAGO-The Boeing Co. is predicting that airlines operating out of Asian and Pacific Rim countries will purchase about 7,200 new airplanes worth $770 billion over the next 20 years, making it the largest market outside North America for new commercial airplanes.
MCLEAN, VA-Companies that design and build custom assembly systems are at the forefront of manufacturing innovation, occupying industry's adventurous fringe.
Activity-based management is a powerful tool that can help focus improvement initiatives on serving the product and customer combinations that account for 80 percent of sales and profits.
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