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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Automobile Manufacturers"”.
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Strategy of Japanese automobile manufacturers : a comparison between Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and Mazda Motor Corporation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1988.
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Axiomatic redesign : using Axiomatic Design to improve vehicle performance of the steering and suspension system
Every year, automobile manufacturers strive to improve upon their existing designs. Every year, they make small adjustments and try to optimize their designs. Unfortunately, this 'optimization' is often a compromise between multiple components and thus the individual components are not working as …
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The role of modularity and module supply in the South African automotive industry
… of modularity and module supply by the automobile manufacturers in South Africa and the benefits they experience. Special attention was paid to the effect the modularity has on the local supplier base and the ability of small South African companies to support this supply concept. Lastly …
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Optimizing paint blocking in an automobile assembly line : an application of specialized TSP's
In the automobile manufacturing industry, vehicle production is an assembly-line process. Automobile companies typically sequence vehicle production based on workload balancing factors, with little consideration of vehicle colors. The resulting sequence usually has a small average paint block size. …
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Trust-based marketing on the Internet : design and implementation of algorithms for a GM customer advocacy site
… a website that applies trust techniques for GM. Automobile manufacturers, GM among them, have suffered from low trust levels from consumers. The purpose of this project is to determine whether certain trust factors in a website improve consideration and trust in GM. A large part of the website My …
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An approach to modeling the cost-strength-weight tradeoff in aluminum and magnesium extrusions for automotive applications
… prices and tightening emissions regulations, automobile manufacturers have been increasingly considering the use of light-weight magnesium in their efforts to improve fuel economy. While mainly used in minor components now, greater weight savings lie in its replacement of heavier structural …
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Car supplier and manufacturer connectivity issues
… relationships between car parts suppliers and automobile manufacturers. With the help of the Car Internet Research Program (CIRP), 17 semi-structured interviews of executive heads belonging to upstream suppliers in the automotive sector were considered as means of this research. Summarized and …
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Assessing the opportunities and risks of different short-range wireless strategies for an automotive manufacturer
… automotive industry, the notion of a connected automobile is now commonplace because of widespread adoption of pioneering telematics products. As wireless technology advances, automobile manufacturers must recognize new applications for their products and implications for their customers in …
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Managing the implementation of automotive emission control technologies using systems engineering principles
… air quality. From that point onwards, the automobile manufacturers have been forced to comply with ever tightening emission regulations. This thesis describes an original investigation into the conflicting clockspeeds that prohibit rapid integration of new automobile emission technologies …
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From plant to dealer : improving route optimization for outbound vehicle distribution at an automobile manufacturer
… distribution is increasingly important for automobile manufacturers. Many manufacturers have turned to specialized, licensed supply chain software to optimize their distribution network to determine the appropriate path for each product from factory to dealer. While these software programs …
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Development of a spatially-resolved technique for the measurement of effective diffusions and Its application to the reaction modelling of deactivated washcoated catalytic monoliths
… in many countries lead to challenges for automobile manufacturers to meet carbon monoxide (CO), total hydrocarbon and nitrogen oxides emission standards, thus further optimisation of current aftertreatment technologies is essential. Optimisation of the three-way catalysts (TWCs) converters …
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Security and Privacy of Vehicular ad hoc Networks Supporting Revocation
… In the eyes of government agencies and of automobile manufacturers, a deployable VANET must not only be built on secure safety applications but must also protect a user’s privacy. Specifically, consumers may be averse to the privacy implications of using a vehicle that broadcasts highly …
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Process improvement of the emission decal design and release process utilizing a system dynamics approach
In the past ten years, automobile manufacturers have spent a growing amount of money on recall campaigns and late fixes brought about by emission decal problems, due in part because engineers and management do not fully appreciate the dynamic complexity of the emission decal design and release …
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Assessment framework for wireless V2V communication-based ITS applications
… technology has generated great interest among automobile manufacturers and ITS researchers alike because of its potential to improve safety and non-safety ITS applications by supporting data collection and dissemination at the individual vehicle level. A modelling framework based on a …
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Cognitive Microfoundations of Industry Foresight and Strategic Investments: Evidence Within the Global Automotive Industry
… quotes, investment and patent data of 56 major automobile manufacturers from 1990-2020, and a field experiment at a top automaker from 2018-2019. Chapter 1 finds evidence that Bayesian belief updating helps generate superior industry foresight, especially under moderate uncertainty, and that not …
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Preparing small urban areas for shared mobility with autonomous vehicles: a case study of college town
… car on-road test in 2009, a variety of automobile manufacturers, high-tech companies, and transportation network companies have joined the autonomous vehicle competition in order to have a leading role in the future transportation industry. Given their self-driving capabilities, AVs are …
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Tactical Network Flow and Discrete Optimization Models and Algorithms for the Empty Railcar Transportation Problem
… types of empty railcars for eight principal automobile manufacturers. Today, the practice is to consolidate the fleets of all automobile manufacturers for each equipment type, and to solve the distribution problem of repositioning empty multilevel autoracks of each type from points at which …
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Hybrid internal combustion engine : driving a vehicle using air compressed in braking
… 1970's, stringent government standards placed on automobile manufacturers have led the industry to explore more fuel efficient alternatives to the vehicle with a conventional internal combustion engine/transmission powertrain. This is the motivation behind Mr. David F. Moyer's hybrid internal …
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Development and Testing Of The iCACC Intersection Controller For Automated Vehicles
… will provide valuable feedback for researchers, automobile manufacturers, and decision makers in making the case to introduce such systems.
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