1. The history‚ development‚ and growth of the company over time (e.g.‚ critical incidents) General Motors (GM) was founded in 1908. William C. Durant brought together 25 independent car companies to form one large corporation. Each company held its own identity as GM operated as central administration office for the 25 divisions. Due to high cost in manufacturing of automobiles‚ GM was only able to target wealthy customers who could afford cars. Then Henry Ford‚ owner and founder of Ford Motor
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QUESTION 1 Using the specific operations performance objectives explain why do you thing TMC is a world-class company? A company should be concerned to satisfy its customers’ requirements for fast and dependable services at reasonable price‚ as well as helping its own suppliers to improve services they offer. There are five basic performance objectives and they apply to all types of operation: • Quality • Speed • Dependability • Flexibility • Cost (Slack‚ N. et
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The Toyota Production System High Quality and Low Cost Readings; g; James Womack‚ Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos‚ The Machine that Changed the World‚ 1990‚ Ch 3 and 4 J T. Black “The Factory with a Future” Ch 2 & 4 Michael McCoby‚ “Is There a Best Way to Build a Car?” HBR Nov-Dec 1997 1 COST VS DEFECTS Three Major Mfg Systems from 1800 t 2000 f to Machine tools‚ specialized machine tools‚ Taylorism‚ SPC‚ CNC‚ CAD/CAM 1800 Interchangeable Parts at U.S. Armories 1900 Mass Production
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Rio Bravo IV - Case Analysis Question 1. Are there any justifiable reasons for this response by NUMMI/Toyota people? Or was it just nit-picking? Yes‚ there are justifiable reasons. In the Japanese culture‚ quality is the one of the most important determinates in choosing a supplier. They had specific standards that they developed and applied throughout their entire organization‚ they expected the same from their supplier (Garbage in - Garbage out premise). They saw promise in Rio Bravo IV’s willingness
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Synopsis: General Motors (hereafter GM) Company‚ one of the world’s largest automakers‚ traces its roots back to 1908 and its annual revenue in 2000 of $185 billion. The company sells 8 million vehicles per years‚ 3.2 million of which are produced and market outside of its North America. GM caught 27 percent share of the North America and 9 percent share of the market in the rest of the world as well as GM captured 12 percent share in the Western Europe in 2000 which is second only to that of ford
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rapid entry into a new or consolidating industry‚ and to take advantage of synergies. Each firm is faced with its own environmental conditions and this may prompt a strategic alliance for other reasons. The GM-Toyota strategic alliance resulting in NUMMI was motivated in part by the desire of each firm to learn. GM wanted to learn about the Toyota production process‚ and Toyota wanted to learn about American labor relations. The content notes five thought processes in cross fringe collusions: 1) to
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improved. Product quality and production efficiency augmented as a result of implementing new technologies and new manufacturing approaches‚ as in example: Lean manufacturing‚ quality circles‚ self-directed work groups‚ and people empowerment. “NUMMI with some 170 robots is less automated than several of GM’s newer plants. Plans are to reach an annualized 200‚000 units in 1986 with a work force of 2‚500 – a level which rivals Japanese productivity” (Rehder et al.‚ 1985‚ p. 38). International
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC): The Lexus RX 330 Line 1 On the day of April‚ 25th 2000‚ Greig Arnold found himself both anxious and excited as he approached the offices of Toyota’s worldwide headquarters in Toyota City‚ Japan. He was about to meet with the Chairman of global operations‚ Ikebuchi Nakatani‚ at the world’s third largest automaker. His hope was to convince the Chairman to support his company’s bid for the new Lexus RX 330 line‚ which would be the first of its kind manufactured
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Toyota was started in 1933 as a division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works devoted to the production of automobiles under the direction of the founder’s son‚ Kiichiro Toyoda. Its first vehicles were the A1 passenger car and the G1 in 1935. The Toyota Motor Co. was established as an independent company in 1937. In 2008‚ Toyota’s sales surpassed General Motors‚ making Toyota number one in the world. In 1924‚ Sakichi Toyoda invented the Toyoda Model G Automatic Loom. The principle of Jidoka‚ which means
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Title: | Cultural control has become the dominant mode of control in contemporary work organizations | Word Length: | Approx. 3600 | Control is to ensure that actions conform to the expected results by appropriate feedback systems and correcting any deviation in time to see that results are ensured within proper time and cost as per planned standards. Control is a relationship that develops and changes with time. Child (2005‚ pp.112) states that “The standard English definition of control is
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