Despite shifting dynamics, the automotive industry remains steadfast in benchmarking its overall success against one key ingredient—the Voice of the Customer. The automotive industry is a vital part of the UK economy accounting for more than £71.6 billion turnover and £18.9 billion value added. We are an experienced partner for energy efficiency for the automotive industry — and as an energy services provider, we keep energy costs low while increasing supply security and comfort. Competing through Costs versus Capabilities: Organizational Transformation of the Indian Automobile Industry.

Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible. As the export champion of the last eleven years and Turkey’s largest export sector, the automotive industry is in first place in commercial vehicle manufacture in Europe. The new generation of autoworkers all but assumed that high-paying jobs would eventually go overseas and took steps, or at least expected, to eventually move into a new career.

A consortium of various automotive companies offers expertise in the form of a center for clean energy drive technology. Between Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer and Hybridization of Productive Models in the International Automobile Industry. We first introduced these benefits to our customers in the late 1980s, when Gore brought the first automotive vents to market. A more old school” type of problem touched on by a number of industry officials this week has been the U.S. tax code and its impact on businesses.

One of these is the Bavaria-wide Automotive cluster , whose aims include increasing transparency in the existing competences in business and science with relevance for the automotive industry, increasing value creation, a cross-sector exchange of information and experience, and interdisciplinary networking. With an open investment policy, a large consumer market, a highly skilled workforce, available infrastructure, and government incentives, the United States is the premier place for the future of the auto industry.

Many of the new features going into cars require the expertise of software engineers, who by and large prefer the ostensibly more dynamic work environments of Silicon Valley startups to those of the automotive industry. Our automotive experts are also always ready to assist you in terms of process planning, customer training or after-sales service. In Global Strategies and Local Realities: The Auto Industry in Emerging Markets, eds.