Due to the trend of globalization, Auto-parts industry in Taiwan is facing the challenge of market liberalized and global car companies¡¦ tactical regroup that cause the structural readjustment. In order to maintain market competitive capacity, Auto-parts companies in Taiwan head into internationalization gradually and set up overseas subsidiaries in different investing types, creating so-called multi-national enterprises. The overseas subsidiaries will not only present their different tactical missions they should undertake that are different from their headquarter¡¦s during expanding market share, but also play different roles in monolithic value chain. Under internationalized operation, how to keep track of transcendental international knowledge-management tactics and generate innovative motivity continuously will be a great challenge to reputed traditional industry- Auto-parts in the future. Through questionnaire-inquire method, this research reports explore the connection of the knowledge management and the ability of organization innovation in Auto-parts industry. Adding the view of internationalized tactics to search the above influence of otherness in order to find out the most optimum international knowledge-management operation mode. After this research is studied and verified, the main points of it as follows: 1. The analysis of otherness: This research points out that the level of internationalization to the Auto-parts firms does not cause any notable difference in knowledge management and organization innovation. 2. Influential analysis: In the part of affection of knowledge management to organization innovation, this research notes that other variable of knowledge management to management innovation and technology innovation exists positive connection aside from knowledge management tactics. The ¡§learning culture¡¨ is the most forecasting factor to management innovation and technology innovation. Besides, both ¡§knowledge-supporting information system¡¨ and ¡§knowledge-transfer advancement¡¨ get marked forecasting to the management innovation of Auto-parts industry. ¡§Multinational-integration-knowledge innovation¡¨ has notable forecasting to technology management. Only value-chain-activity causes influence in variable to the part of knowledge management and organization innovation in internationalized tactics. The research to Auto-parts industry remarks that learning culture, knowledge-supporting information system, knowledge-transfer advancement and multinational-integration-knowledge innovation enable knowledge management to create positive affection in organization innovation. Thus, as my suggestion, enterprises have to get the effort in cultivating learning culture, establishing knowledge-supporting information system, advancing knowledge transfer and using the method of integration to create knowledge.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:50:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5125.pdf: 3261941 bytes, checksum: 60d5b3bce02b6d0bc9ca741545293c03 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-28 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / In the 1950s, Japanese companies in the automotive sector, in particular the Toyota Motor Company, began to develop different methods to manufacture vehicles in relation to those used by U.S. industry, known at the time as a system of mass production (OHNO 1997; WOMACK et al. 1992; CUSUMANO, 1989). Breaking this paradigm resulted in a new production model, known as the Toyota Production System (TPS) and popularized in the west by the name of lean manufacturing (LM) or lean production (LP). With the implementation of new production systems, it is generally verified that changes occur in production strategies (PSs), in coordinating the flow of materials and information and also the relationships between customers and suppliers, and these can have major impacts on the ways organizational implemented. Given this context, the main objective of this work is to identify and analyze the relationships between production strategies and lean manufacturing approach in three companies of the auto parts industry that have adopted lean manufacturing as a system for production management, trying to verify the role that STP has in the PSs of each company. We opted for a qualitative approach and the research strategy used was the case study. The results of the study indicate that production strategies and lean production are effectively aligned in the cases studied, showing that LP acts supporting the PS of the companies. / Na década de 1950, as empresas japonesas do setor automobilístico, em especial a Toyota Motor Company, começaram a desenvolver métodos diferentes de fabricar veículos em relação aos utilizados pela indústria americana, conhecido na época como sistema de produção em massa (OHNO, 1997; WOMACK et al., 1992; CUSUMANO, 1989). A quebra desse paradigma resultou em um novo modelo de produção, conhecido como Sistema Toyota de Produção (STP) e popularizado no ocidente com o nome de manufatura enxuta (ME) ou produção enxuta (PE). Com a implantação de novos sistemas de produção, verifica-se geralmente que ocorrem mudanças nas estratégias de produção (EPs), na coordenação do fluxo de materiais e informações e ainda, nas relações entre clientes e fornecedores, e estes podem ter impactos importantes nas formas organizacionais implementadas. Diante deste contexto, o objetivo principal deste trabalho é identificar e analisar as relações existentes entre as estratégias de produção e a abordagem da manufatura enxuta em três empresas do setor de autopeças que adotaram o lean manufacturing como sistema para a gestão da produção, procurando verificar o papel que o STP exerce nas EPs de cada companhia. Optou-se por uma abordagem qualitativa e a estratégia de pesquisa utilizada foi o estudo de caso. Os resultados da pesquisa indicam que as estratégias de produção e a produção enxuta se encontram efetivamente alinhadas nos casos estudados, mostrando que a PE atua dando suporte à EP das empresas.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-02T21:42:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Evandro.pdf: 2560701 bytes, checksum: a9602a2eaa1935e14ba947f9c8b4a6b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-03-17 / The present dissertation has the goal to verify the reasons which Metal Leve relinquished share-holder majority to an international competitor and to compare the existent situation in the time of denationalization and the situation in the new controlling company Mahle Metal Leve S.A. in production form and administration, after the reorganization of the productive restructuring. That process of productive internationalization r4sult in modification in the company restructuring of the production and of the administration and occasion a new virtous circle and represent the bases of a new economical growth, with a strategic project of long term, associated to his economical power, managerial capacity and his tradition. The study is based in a group of information about the two moments, focusing the financial results, managerial aspects, leadership, competitive capacity and the evolution to the long of those of the two compared moments. Concluding that not just the phenomenon of the globalization of the international economy turned inevitable the cession of the shareholders capital. But, it also lacked strategic vision to perceive the changes that unavoidably happened his turn. The new controlling Mahler Metal Leve brought a new managerial competence that resulted in increased of productivity and it improved his competitiveness. / A presente dissertação teve como objetivo verificar as razões pelas quais a empresa Metal Leve cedeu o controle acionário a uma empresa concorrente de porte internacional e comparar a situação existente à época da sua desnacionalização e o estágio em que se encontra a nova controladora Mahle Metal Leve S. A. em termos de produção e gestão, após a reorganização produtiva. Esse processo de internacionalização produtiva acarretou modificações na empresa ensejando uma reestruturação da produção e da gestão e um novo círculo vicioso, constituindo as bases de um novo crescimento econômico, com um projeto estratégico de longo prazo, associado ao seu poder econômico, a sua capacidade gerencial e a sua tradição. O estudo está fundamentado em um conjunto de informações sobre os dois momentos, focalizando os resultados financeiros, aspectos gerenciais, liderança, capacidade competitiva e a evolução ao longo desses dois momentos comparados. Concluindo que não apenas o fenômeno da globalização da economia internacional tornou inevitável a cessão do controle acionário. Porém, também faltou visão estratégica para perceber as mudanças que inevitavelmente ocorriam a sua volta e que a nova controladora, a Mahler Metal Leve, trouxe uma competência gerencial que resultou em ganhos de produtividade e melhorou sua competitividade

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:50:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 4152.pdf: 1129205 bytes, checksum: 517e491326ee03c1afdec975a4f50cf2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-28 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / ABSTRACT Remanufacturing is an important source of sustainable development. Remanufactured products provide quality standards of new products with low cost. In addition, remanufacturing companies represent a potential growth in employment, as are intensive in manpower due to the operations of disassembly, reconditioning and reassembly. Due to the unique characteristics of the remanufacturing process, it clearly has many differences compared to conventional manufacturing. These characteristics, which makes it a complex activity, requiring a good performance of the activities of the Production Planning and Control (PPC). In this research we intend to cope with PPC, specifically for the automotive parts remanufacturing, one of the most representative of the category in Brazil. The research objectives are to identify the main characteristics and challenges of remanufacturing auto parts, with respect to PPC, identifying the main features, management tools and challenges of remanufacturing in the literature with regard to PPC, and propose a model / method to fill the identified gaps about the difficulties in practice and literature on PPC in remanufacturing. The proposed method, to fill one of the gaps identified, is to perform the disassembly master production scheduling considering stochastic routings. Thus, the results of this study contribute effectively to the development of theory and practical application with respect to PPC in remanufacturing. / A remanufatura é uma importante fonte de desenvolvimento sustentável. Os produtos remanufaturados são de qualidade e de baixo custo. Além disso, as empresas remanufatureiras representam um potencial crescimento no nível de emprego, pois são intensivas em mão-de-obra devido às operações de desmontagem, recondicionamento e remontagem. Em função das características singulares dos processos de remanufatura, esta possui claramente muitas diferenças em relação à manufatura convencional. Essas características, que a torna uma atividade complexa, requerem um bom desempenho das atividades de Planejamento e Controle da Produção (PCP). Nesta pesquisa pretende-se atuar justamente nas atividades do PCP, mais especificamente no PCP para a remanufatura de autopeças, uma das maiores representantes da categoria no Brasil. Os objetivos da pesquisa são: identificar as principais características e dificuldades da remanufatura de autopeças, no que se refere ao PCP; identificar as principais características, ferramentas gerenciais e dificuldades da remanufatura na literatura, no que se refere ao PCP; e propor um modelo/método para preencher uma das lacunas identificadas a respeito das dificuldades na prática e na literatura sobre PCP na remanufatura. O método proposto, para preencher uma das lacunas identificadas, é para realização da programação mestre de desmontagem considerando roteiros estocásticos. Com isso, os resultados da presente pesquisa contribuem efetivamente para o desenvolvimento da teoria e para a aplicação prática com relação ao PCP na remanufatura.

Orientador: Antônio Batocchio / Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica. / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T02:21:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rabelo_MarceloMaciel_M.pdf: 1566499 bytes, checksum: d76d98f5a72183bd42b5d44157da3aeb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A competitividade mundial está cada vez mais acirrada entre as empresas e a busca de diferenciais para os clientes passa diretamente pelos custos de seus produtos. Países com alta tecnologia de produção e também com elevados custos de produção interna estão optando por obter fontes de fornecimento em regiões onde os custos de produção são baixos e, conseqüentemente, reduzindo muito os custos do produto final sendo assim capazes de aumentar a atratividade para seus produtos. Devido à busca constante pela para redução de custos dos produtos finais, em especial, as empresas sistemistas estão atuando de forma a desenvolver novas fontes de fornecimento na região asiática que oferece preços altamente competitivos. O estudo mostra as relações e os impactos gerados pelo processo de Global Sourcing, as incertezas deste processo na cadeia de suprimentos e seus possíveis impactos na manufatura dos clientes destes componentes. Atualmente as empresas e seus administradores não possuem todos os recursos e conhecimentos necessários para a avaliação e tomada de decisão correta considerando as vantagens e desvantagens entre manter-se com a fonte atual e uma nova, originária da Ásia. Diante deste problema, este trabalho colaborará com os administradores a ter uma visão sobre quais são algumas das principais variáveis existentes neste processo. Como não há uma regra geral, o grande problema para os administradores é escolher a estratégia correta e, quantificar e qualificar seus benefícios podem ser de grande ajuda. O resultado deste trabalho será uma matriz de decisão que considera os três pilares usualmente considerados na escolha de uma fonte com relação à cadeia de fornecimento: compras, logística e qualidade. O objetivo deste trabalho é definir um método para combinar os três pilares usualmente considerados na escolha de uma fonte de fornecimento para indústria de autopeças, são eles: compras, logística e qualidade com o método AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) que auxiliará os gestores deste processo na tomada de decisão / Abstract: The global competition is increasingly fierce among companies and the search for differentials passes directly to customers the costs of their products. Countries with high technology production and also have high costs of domestic production are opting for more sources of supply in regions where production costs are low and, consequently, greatly reducing the cost of the final product is thus able to increase their attractiveness to products. Due to the constant search for cost reduction of final products, in particular, the systems are operating companies in order to develop new sources of supply in the Asian region offering highly competitive prices. The study shows the relationships and impacts generated by the process of Global Sourcing, the uncertainties of this process in the supply chain and its possible impacts on customers' manufacturing these components. Now the companies and their managers do not have all the resources and knowledge needed to evaluate and correct decision making considering the advantages and disadvantages of keeping up with the current source and a new, native to Asia. Faced with this problem, this paper will work with managers to gain insight into what are some of the main variables in this process. Since there is a general rule, the big problem for managers is to choose the right strategy, and quantify and qualify its benefits can be of great help. The result of this work is a decision matrix that considers the three pillars usually considered in choosing a source with respect to the supply chain: purchasing, logistics and quality. The objective of this work is to define a method for combining the three pillars usually considered when choosing a supply source for auto parts industry, they are, purchasing, logistics and quality with the AHP method (Analytic Hierarchy Process) to assist managers in this process of decision making / Mestrado / Manufatura / Mestre em Engenharia Automobilistica

Submitted by Milena Rubi (milenarubi@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-14T18:54:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDRADE_Luciana_2016.pdf: 1052203 bytes, checksum: c00a3bc54b11755a2913e09b1343aebe (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Rubi (milenarubi@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-14T18:55:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDRADE_Luciana_2016.pdf: 1052203 bytes, checksum: c00a3bc54b11755a2913e09b1343aebe (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Rubi (milenarubi@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-14T18:55:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDRADE_Luciana_2016.pdf: 1052203 bytes, checksum: c00a3bc54b11755a2913e09b1343aebe (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-14T18:55:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDRADE_Luciana_2016.pdf: 1052203 bytes, checksum: c00a3bc54b11755a2913e09b1343aebe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-01 / Não recebi financiamento / With the crisis that has been going the automotive industry last year, it is necessary that companies in the auto parts sector go forward several changes to remain competitive. In this context, organizational innovation, which has the organizational culture as one of its main determinants, it is a key pillar of support competitiveness. Thus, this work is a multicases study in five large suppliers companies of auto parts of the metropolitan area of Sorocaba, aimed to analyze the practices of organizational innovation, and identify the factors related to the organizational culture of these companies are the key to the organizational innovation. As result, it was found that the adoption of organizational innovation practices is due to isomorphism in the automotive industries, but the organizational culture focused on innovation is essential for the occurrence of organizational innovation, and features such as financial (reward system, financial resources), organizational architecture (market orientation, mission, value and leadership), management tools (support innovation, teamwork, acceptance of risk and error tolerance, creativity, communication and management systems) are fundamentals. As factors that hinder organizational innovation were basically found problems related to people as: outgoing employees, lack of discipline, motivation, overwork, predesigned concepts, difficult to accept changes and unhappiness. The centralization of power, lack of autonomy and authoritarian leadership were also mentioned as inhibitors to the occurrence of organizational innovation. / Com a crise que vem passando a indústria automotiva, devido à redução de demanda no ano de 2015, torna-se necessário que as empresas do setor de autopeças passem por diversas mudanças para continuarem competitivas. Nesse contexto, a inovação organizacional, que tem a cultura organizacional como um dos seus principais determinantes, torna-se um pilar fundamental de sustentação da competitividade. Assim, esse trabalho, um estudo multicasos realizado em cinco empresas de grande porte fornecedoras de autopeças da região metropolitana de Sorocaba, teve como objetivo analisar as práticas da inovação organizacional, além de identificar os fatores relacionados à cultura organizacional dessas empresas que são determinantes à inovação organizacional. Como resultado encontrou-se que a adoção de práticas de inovação organizacional ocorre devido ao isomorfismo nas indústrias automotivas, porém a cultura organizacional voltada à inovação é imprescindível para a ocorrência de inovação organizacional, e características como recursos financeiros (sistema de recompensas, recursos financeiro), arquitetura organizacional (orientação para mercado, missão, valor e liderança), ferramentas gerenciais (suporte à inovação, trabalho em equipe, aceitação ao risco e tolerância ao erro, criatividade, comunicação e sistemas de gestão) são fundamentais. Como fatores que dificultam a inovação organizacional foram encontrados basicamente problemas relacionados aos recursos humanos como: saída de funcionários,falta de disciplina, motivação, sobrecarga, conceitos pré-concebidos, dificuldades para aceitar mudanças e insatisfação. A centralização de poder, a falta de autonomia e liderança autoritária também foram citados como inibidores a ocorrência da inovação organizacional.

The enactment of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was intended to reduce tariffs on most goods by 2008 among Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and to create the largest regional market outside the European Union. Early research conducted to investigate the relationships between tariffs elimination and trade volume focused mainly on macrolevel effects with mixed results, without acknowledging the possible influence from exchange rate fluctuations. After 20 years, NAFTA has provided the opportunity to observe a significant reduction in tariffs between 1994 and 2013. Skepticism regarding the relationship between trade liberalization and the regional economy, and the controversy still surrounding NAFTA, suggests that other factors might influence trade, making the current study relevant. The purpose of this study was to investigate possible relationships between exchange rate fluctuations and trade volume during a period when tariffs were eliminated. This study focused on 2 basic theories of preferential trade and the exchange rate, and data were collected on imports-exports between Mexico and the United States. Regression analyses showed a relationship between exchange rate fluctuation and trade volume when tariffs are eliminated. The findings may help exporters and unions understand the implications of other factors affecting trade. The findings may also help union leaders understand how other economic factors may have implication on global economy rather than focusing solely on trade agreements, and to better strategize in addressing social issues of concern related to globalization.