There are additionally many new monetization opportunities for automotive producers who dare to explore new service concepts. Join right now to access Automotive Logistics’ wealth of global news, insights, intelligence and to make necessary connections across the automotive industry. The carmaker is focusing electrical car investment and scale in Asia, and is a sign of how electrification may reshape manufacturing footprints. Production of electric vehicles at Zwickau is not affected, nevertheless, and manufacturing restarted as planned after the winter holiday. A report in the Nikkei Asian information also indicated that these provide points have been additionally affecting manufacturing of the Fit/Jazz model at Honda’s plant in Suzuka this month.
This, too, is an acceleration of a development that began nicely prematurely of the COVID-19 pandemic. [newline]A decade later, along the automotive provide chain, the development towards higher transparency is accelerating for OEMs and tier-one suppliers alike. Starting in the 1960s, the Japanese automobile companies particularly began importing small high quality automobiles and introduced new approaches to manufacturing (e.g., Just-in-Time, Kanban, Kaizen) that revolutionized the industry. Coinciding with the Seventies oil embargo, the smaller extra fuel efficient automobiles shortly gained popularity. However as explained earlier, political forces, transportation prices, and the …
