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Japanisation in the United Kingdom:
Experiences From the Car Industry
This report aims to analyze and compare the systems of power and control in the Japanese and western automobile manufacturing industries. The method was to use a wide range of theory and to support the analysis. The world has become an extremely competitive global economic battle ground. Automobile manufactures from both the east and the west continue to search for opportunities that will allow them to strategically reduce overhead but not affect market share or profitability. Consider that In the 1990's the solution was to literally cut or reduce the labor force and therefore reduce inherent costs of labor. The buzz words of the time were 'they just laid off X amount ... ', or 'they are downsizing ... ' These terms were regulars on the media circuit or on the front page of the morning's business section. These phrases were really attempts to reduce overhead. In the automobile manufacturing sector, labor is at a premium today so the likes of Japanese and Western automobile manufactures can not reduce their labor without either indirectly or directly affecting the both output and quality. To take advantage of their power, the automobile manufactures are simply relocating to new emerging markets in order to get the same labor at reduced cost and to cut ties with...
Japanese auto makers have pressured suppliers to improve quality and to provide just-in-time delivery options or those vendors are eliminated as preferred suppliers. Japanese manufactures have raised the level of vendor and supplier communication both digitally and verbally. Computing technology for Honda and Toyota has been directly connected to the majority of their suppliers in all parts of the world and that has increased overall efficiency, productivity and quality. The objective is to find and only work with more economical, stronger and cheaper materials suppliers' at the most cost effective price and time. The Japanese automotive industry as well as the rest of the west like Ford and General Motors has all become seemingly obsessed by the notion of shaping industry fate in a highly technical economy.
Surprisingly, Japanese automakers have been clambering to open new plants in the United States' southern regions. "The relocation of automotive manufacturing is threatening the economic future of East Coast and Midwestern states and creating a whirlwind of investment from Mississippi to South Carolina." (Corbett, 2002) American manufactures have been consistently moving abroad or…
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Corbett, Brian (2002). Southern hospitality. Ward's Auto World, August.
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