Recasting the Machine Age recounts the history of Henry Ford's efforts to shift the production of Ford cars and trucks from the large-scale factories he had pioneered in the Detroit area to nineteen decentralized, small-scale plants within sixty miles of Ford headquarters in Dearborn. The visionary who had become famous in the early twentieth century for his huge and technologically advanced Highland Park and Rouge River complexes gradually changed his focus beginning in the late 1910s and conti...
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This handbook introduces community leaders to an understanding of transportation mobility, offering suggestions to reduce congestion, automobile dependence, and vehicle miles of travel.
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This book discusses the Global Manufacturing Teaching Strategies of the 21st Century, including employing the New Global Manufacturing Model (NGMM) using total linkage of TDS, TPS, TMS, TIS & TJS, as the next generation management technology principle. Specifically, this book describes the New Japan Automobile Global Manufacturing Model (NJ-AGMM) used for the strengthening of Japan automobile corporate management in advanced companies that surpasses JIT, or the traditional Toyota Production Syst...
Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe (Lecture Notes in Mobility)
In order to build a sustainable transport system for people and goods that meets the needs of all users, a truly integrated and seamless approach is needed, and the full potential of transformative technologies has to be exploited. This can only be achieved if user-centeredness, cross-modality and technology transfer become the paradigm of shaping future transport. Mobility4EU is a project funded by the European Commission that focusses on these topics and is working on delivering an action plan...
This is an analysis of the changing face of the American economy and a treatise on the pitfalls of prosperity. Through a study of two companies - Ford and Nissan - the author reveals a society that got rich too quickly for its own good, falling prey to the Japanese. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam also wrote "The Best and the Brightest" and "The Powers That Be".
We have all become dependent on commercial vehicles to support all aspects of our lives. Goods and service vehicles collect and deliver items, distribute products, remove waste and support service industries. Gloucestershire Goods and Service Vehicles is a pictorial record of the many vehicle makes and types used by Gloucestershire's road transport operators during the last hundred years. It covers horse-drawn, steam, petrol, diesel and battery powered vehicles, ranging from the heavy hauliers w...
This monograph adresses the challenge of the environmental assessment of leightweight electric vehicles. It poses the question whether the use of lightweight materials in electric vehicles can reduce the vehicles' environmental impact and compares the environmental performance of a lightweight electric vehicle (LEV) to other types of vehicles. The topical approach focuses on methods from life cycle assessment (LCA), and the book concludes with a comprehensive concept on the environmental assessm...
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