Research and Markets: Production Practices of Leading Automotive Component Manufacturers Examined

DUBLIN, Ireland--Nov. 2, 20049, 2004--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c10089) has announced the addition of Automotive Suppliers: 2004 Global Best Practices Statistical Yearbook to their offering

Do you know how your company performs up against the competition and industry best practice? Where you're leading - and where you're lagging?

This report provides precise and usable automotive supplier benchmarking data enabling Tier 1-2-3 and aftermarket suppliers to pinpoint how they perform against industry best practices in areas such as cost control, quality, human resource management and R&D.

Data provided in this report was acquired from a five-year global best practices automotive supplier benchmarking programme, created with participation from over 70 major automotive component manufacturers. These include a range of European and US-based multinationals such as Becker, DaimlerChrysler, Dana, Delphi, Faurecia, Federal Mogul, GM, Lear, Timken, Toyota, Visteon, Denso, Dunlop and ZF Lemforder.

The database generated from the study uniquely covers both emerging and developed markets, as well as multinational and locally owned companies. It provides an unparalleled insight into the competitiveness issues driving the global automotive industry, and allows Tier 1-2-3 and aftermarket suppliers across the globe to identify to what extent they are adhering to the latest lean production practices.

The extensive critical competitiveness measures explored in the Yearbook are grouped under six lean production market drivers:

Cost control

1. Total inventory levels

2. Raw material (RM) holding

3. Work in progress (WIP)

4. Finished goods (FG) holding

Quality

5. Customer return rates

6. Internal reject rates

7. Internal scrap rates

8. Internal rework rates

9. Return rates to suppliers

Value chain flexibility

10. Customer lead times - from FG

11. Customer lead times - from production

12. OTIF delivery to customers

13. Supplier lead times

14. OTIF delivery of suppliers

Operational flexibility

15. Manufacturing throughput times

16. Production time lost to changeovers

17. Production time lost to breakdowns

Human resource development

18. Preventative maintenance as a percentage of total maintenance time

19. Training expenditure

20. Formal off-line training per employee

21. Suggestions received vs. suggestions implemented

22. Labour turnover rates

23. Staff turnover rates

24. Management turnover rates

25. Absenteeism rates

Product development

26. R&D expenditure

27. Contribution of new products to sales

Contents Include:

Introducing Benchmarking and Manufacturing

Section 1 - Understanding the yearbook

Section 2 - Aggregate "Market Driver" performance findings

Section 3 - Sub-sector performance findings

Section 4 - Developed economy versus Developing economy firm performance

Section 5 - Firm performance based on market focus

Section 6 - Performance findings according to employment size of participating firms

Appendix - One page competitiveness self-assessment

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