학술논문
Lean production and supplier relations: a survey of practices in the Aragonese automotive industry
Document Type
Periodical
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Source
Technovation. Dec, 2000, Vol. 20 Issue 12, p665, 12 p.
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ISSN
0166-4972
Abstract
This paper analyzes the main results of a survey to 28 automotive suppliers in the Spanish region of Aragon. It has been found in a regression analysis that the rotation of tasks and teamworking are positively correlated with the training and the use of modular components. Nearly half of the companies cooperate with customers, suppliers, and technological centers to improve their production processes but only two companies cooperate with their customers in component development and design which indicates an underinvolvement of the surveyed companies with the automotive manufacturers. The companies are much more integrated with the automakers in the delivery process, since more than half of the companies have daily deliveries and directly to the assembly line of the automaker. Keywords: Lean production; Flexibility; Automotive supplier relationships