Research and Markets: Production Practices of Leading Automotive Component Manufacturers Examined

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c10093) has announced the addition of Automotive Suppliers: 2004 Global Best Practices Statistical Yearbook to their offering

(PRWEB) November 27, 2004 -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c10093) has announced the addition of Automotive Suppliers: 2004 Global Best Practices Statistical Yearbook to their offering

Do you know how your company performs up against the competition and industry best practice? Where you're leading - and where you're lagging?

This report provides precise and usable automotive supplier benchmarking data enabling Tier 1-2-3 and aftermarket suppliers to pinpoint how they perform against industry best practices in areas such as cost control, quality, human resource management and R&D.

Data provided in this report was acquired from a five-year global best practices automotive supplier benchmarking programme, created with participation from over 70 major automotive component manufacturers. These include a range of European and US-based multinationals such as Becker, DaimlerChrysler, Dana, Delphi, Faurecia, Federal Mogul, GM, Lear, Timken, Toyota, Visteon, Denso, Dunlop and ZF Lemförder.

The database generated from the study uniquely covers both emerging and developed markets, as well as multinational and locally owned companies. It provides an unparalleled insight into the competitiveness issues driving the global automotive industry, and allows Tier 1-2-3 and aftermarket suppliers across the globe to identify to what extent they are adhering to the latest lean production practices.

The extensive critical competitiveness measures explored in the Yearbook are grouped under six lean production market drivers:
Cost control
1. Total inventory levels
2. Raw material (RM) holding
3. Work in progress (WIP)
4. Finished goods (FG) holding

Quality
5. Customer return rates
6. Internal reject rates
7. Internal scrap rates
8. Internal rework rates
9. Return rates to suppliers

Value chain flexibility
10. Customer lead times -- from FG
11. Customer lead times -- from production
12. OTIF delivery to customers
13. Supplier lead times
14. OTIF delivery of suppliers

Operational flexibility
15. Manufacturing throughput times
16. Production time lost to changeovers
17. Production time lost to breakdowns

Human resource development
18. Preventative maintenance as a percentage of total maintenance time
19. Training expenditure
20. Formal off-line training per employee
21. Suggestions received vs. suggestions implemented
22. Labour turnover rates
23. Staff turnover rates
24. Management turnover rates
25. Absenteeism rates

Product development
26. R&D expenditure
27. Contribution of new products to sales

Contents Include:
Introducing Benchmarking and Manufacturing
Section 1 -- Understanding the yearbook
Section 2 -- Aggregate Market Driver" performance findings
Section 3 -- Sub-sector performance findings
Section 4 -- Developed economy versus Developing economy firm performance
Section 5 -- Firm performance based on market focus
Section 6 -- Performance findings according to employment size of participating firms
Appendix -- One page competitiveness self-assessment

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c10093

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.com
Fax: +353 1 4100 980

###