Tyler Mueller Hour 6 10/25/12 Tire Selection Project This comparison will show the difference between four tires that could be used on a 2004 Pontiac Grand Am GT Coupe. It is a small 2WD car that is used for driving around town to work and school but not for long trips. This will research the best summer performance tire for this vehicle and its needs. At the end the OVERALL best tire will be chosen for this vehicle. The first category is cost‚ where the BF Goodrich g-Force T/A KDW 2 has
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One of the latest recalls involves two companies‚ which are the Ford Motor Company and Firestone. About 290‚000 Firestone tires will be replaced on Ford cars; this action was taken after several accidents happened. Some of the accidents were associated with the death of the drivers. Firestone and Ford Motor’s reputation and public image were affected after this recall (Hakim‚ 2004). Newsweek specified that some of the worst companies in the plant are companies that concentrate on utilities. Peabody
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Bridgestone/Firestone‚ Inc. officially announced that it was recalling 6.5 million of its Wilderness AT tires‚ most of which had been installed on Ford’s popular SUV‚ the Explorer. It was reported that Explorers equipped with Wilderness AT tires had been involved in a large number of rollover accidents on the USA high way leading to more than 170 deaths and over 700 injuries‚ and more than 40 deaths in the other countries. After August 2000‚ Ford announced a recall of more than 1 million Firestone tires
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The strategic approach extends the single-firm point of view by recognizing that a firm’s profit depends not only on the firm’s own actions but also on the actions of competitors. Thus‚ to determine its own optimal action‚ the firm must correctly anticipate the actions and reactions of its rivals. Roughly speaking‚ a manager must look at the competitive situation not only from his or her own point of view but also from rivals’ perspectives. The manager should put himself or herself in the competitor’s
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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was founded by Frank Seiberling in 1898 on the Little Cuyahoga River in Akron Ohio. He borrowed thirty five hundred dollars from his brother-in-law to start the company. The company was named after Charles Goodyear who discovered the rubber vulcanization process in 1839. The company started to build their first factory in 1902 in Akron. In 1903 Paul Litchfield‚ a factory manager received a patent on the tubeless tire. In 1904
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How to Change a Tire When changing a tire‚ there is always a catch. So one must know that things won’t go according to plan or some kind of inconveniences will happen. So it is the coldest day of the year and my hands are freezing cold and on top of that I have to grab hold of a tire iron. So I’m driving and a tire pops‚ first one has to safely come to a complete stop and park the car on the side of the road far away from the road as possible. Once the car has come to a complete stop‚ turn on
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flat tire for you. Instead‚ you can save yourself money by doing it yourself. It is a simple process that takes less than half an hour. Most of the tools you need are already in your car. These tools include a Jack‚ a tire iron‚ a spare tire‚ and road flares. The first step is to set up the road flares. Flares are available at most department stores and are a very good idea to carry. Setting flares makes the car more visible‚ decreasing the chance of an accident while you are changing the tire. To
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2189 JUNE 12‚ 2008 WICKHAM SKINNER HEATHER BECKHAM The Treadway Tire Company: Job Dissatisfaction and High Turnover at the Lima Tire Plant “We have a serious problem.” The words of Brandon Bellingham‚ the plant manager at Treadway’s Lima‚ Ohio‚ Tire Plant‚ rang in Ashley Wall’s ears. She had just attended a tense meeting where she had presented the projected year-end turnover figures for the plant. Out of a total of 50 foremen at the Lima facility‚ 23 of these positions had turned over
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1. Give a brief overview of the situation at Treadway Tires. This Case present the Treadway tires’ management concern about the high foremen turnover at the Lima Ohio plant. This facility counts with approximately 970 unionized hourly employees which are supervised by 50 salaried‚ non-unions‚ floor level managers called line foremen. These foremen as First-line managers are responsible for the daily supervision of non-managerial employees at the areas of production‚ maintenance‚ material control
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Fireside Tire Company‚ a manufacturer of radial tires for sport utility vehicles‚ sells its products in the automotive aftermarket and distributes them throughout the United States. Fireside has three tire production plants locates in Allentown‚ Pennsylvania; Toledo‚ Ohio; and Macomb‚ Illinois (see map). Normally‚ Fireside ships tires from its plants to distribution centers‚ but truckload-size purchases typically are transported directly from plants to customer locations. Al shipments to a region
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