This thesis deals with influence of the economic cycle in the automotive industry in the Czech Republic in 2003 - 2014. It describes the basic economic theories of economic cycles. It analyzes the impact of the economy growth on the production of automobiles on overall production and also to individual automakers in the Czech Republic, particularly carmakers Škoda Auto, TPCA and Hyundai. It is compared with the situation of the Slovak Republic, Germany and the USA. It was also studied the impact of the economic cycle on the demand for new vehicles according to the number of first registrations of new cars. Also evaluated was the impact of "scrapping" on sales and production.

O cenário do mercado exige que as empresas desenvolvam produtos inovadores e feitos com processos eficazes. Uma das alternativas que as empresas automotivas tiveram para atingir tais objetivos é o uso de sistemas de produção enxuta (SPE). Neste contexto, este trabalho apresenta diretrizes para reprojeto de células de manufaturas enxutas. A aplicação do método é ilustrada por meio do caso de reprojeto de uma célula em uma fábrica de autopeças. A célula foi reprojetada em função da necessidade de adaptação à entrada de um novo produto demandado por um dos principais clientes. Como ponto de partida para o reprojeto, a célula existente foi analisada segundo o nível de uso da produção enxuta, por meio de uma ferramenta de avaliação das práticas de produção enxuta disponível na literatura. Essa aplicação permitiu aperfeiçoar a ferramenta de avaliação e identificar oportunidades de melhoria nas células. Depois disso, o reprojeto seguiu as seguintes etapas: projeto preliminar, projeto detalhado e planejamento da implementação das novas células de manufatura. Contudo, os resultados satisfatórios de um Processo de Desenvolvimento de Produtos (PDP) dependem da comunicação entre as etapas e atividades relativas ao processo e a necessidade de integração interfuncional. / The scenario of the market requires that companies develop innovative products and with effective processes. One of the alternatives that the automotive companies had to achieve these goals is to use the lean production systems. In this context, this paper presentsguidelines to redesign lean manufacturing cells, an auto parts factory. Cells were redesigned according one need to adapt to the entry of a new product demanded by a major customer. As a starting point for redesign, existing cells were analyzed according to the level of use of lean production, using an assessment tool of lean production practices available literature. This application allowed improving the assessment tool and identifies opportunities for improvement in the cells. After that, redesign involved the following steps: preliminary design, defining the detailed design and planning of the implementation of new manufacturing cells. However, a satisfactory result of a PDP depends on the communication between the steps and activities related to the process and the need cross-functional integration.

A necessidade de melhorar a competitividade e de atingir metas e objetivos, dentro de uma empresa, faz com que estudos como este sejam, cada vez mais úteis. A eliminação de desperdícios é uma das principais atividades que contribuem para alcançar melhores resultados, pois além de proporcionar a redução no custo total de fabricação de peças e dos serviços prestados, eliminam também, atividades que não agregam valor ao produto, atividades estas, que os consumidores não estão dispostos a pagar. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo demonstrar um estudo real da implantação de técnicas da Teoria das Restrições TOC, aliado a utilização da Mentalidade Enxuta Lean Manufacturing, como ferramentas para eliminação de desperdícios, aumento da produtividade e estabilidade do processo no departamento de Carrocerias de uma indústria automobilística. Num primeiro momento foi analisado o processo produtivo como: os índices da Eficiência Global dos Equipamentos (OEE), balanceamento de cargas de trabalhos e o layout fabril, onde se pode observar várias oportunidades de melhorias como: identificação dos gargalos que restringiam o fluxo produtivo; redução dos lotes de produção em processo; redução do takt time; alterações de layout e aumento da produtividade. A partir daí, foi possível aplicar ações para melhoria do desempenho do processo produtivo, tanto na implementação das ferramentas, como na melhoria contínua. Os resultados obtidos evidenciaram que a correta utilização das técnicas da Teoria das Restrições integradas aos conceitos do Lean Manufacturing, podem gerar ganhos substanciais em competitividade, inclusive com a superação das metas da organização, conforme foi verificado no presente estudo. / The need to improve competitiveness and achieve goals and objectives within a company, makes studies like this are increasingly useful. Waste disposal is one of the main activities that contribute to achieving better results, as well as providing a reduction in the total cost of manufacturing parts and services, also eliminate activities that do not add value to the product, these activities, which consumers are unwilling to pay. In this context, this paper aims to demonstrate an actual study deployment techniques Theory of Constraints `TOC, combined with the use of Lean Thinking `Lean Manufacturing as tools to eliminate waste, increase productivity and process stability Bodies department in an automobile. At first we analyzed the production process as indices of Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE), balancing workloads and factory layout, where you can observe several opportunities for improvements such as: identification of bottlenecks restricting the production flow; reduction of production batches in process, takt time reduction; layout changes and increased productivity. From there, it was possible to implement actions to improve the performance of the production process, both in the implementation of tools such as continuous improvement. The results showed that the use of correct techniques Theory of Constraints integrated the concepts of Lean Manufacturing can generate substantial gains in competitiveness, including overcoming the goals of the organization, as was found in this study.

Background: The discussion regarding value co-creation begins within the field of service marketing, it tells that the value is mutually created in process between the firms and the customers. And that concept has been developed further in many aspects, such as B2B context in which the knowledge intensive industry is involved. Many researchers have argued the importance of value co-creation and emphasized on the need of more studies within business practices. In this study, the particular automotive-3PL relationship would be added in to explore the empirical study of value co-creation. Purpose: The main purpose of the thesis is to study how value co-creation can be managed and achieved from the perspectives of 3PL providers and the users within automotive industry. Method: Through the qualitative research approach, the comprehensive knowledge, which includes the 3PL providers and users’ insights and undertaken behaviours behind the value co-creation is obtained after conducting eight semi-structured interviews in a case study. Conclusion: The results show that the value co-creation is actualized when 3PL providers and automotive users together actively participate in a certain process, in which the offering, interaction and learning are the core activities that should be maintained circularly. Furthermore, the high level of relationship commitment and trust should be sustained between actors.

Content: Car industry is highly demanding for low emission parameters and despite remarkable results have been achieved since the last decade, the requests are day by day more sophisticated. The focus on emission is a severe task and requires the investigation on emissions on full-range and involves the expertise of multi and inter disciplinal competences. The leather industry is a clear key ring for car interior suppliers and it is also focusing on more sustainable processes and reducing the emission of pollutants to the environment, prompting the commitment of leather suppliers, tanneries, and chemical auxiliaries producers. From our perspective, in fact, one of the major problems that car interior producers are currently facing is the production of low-emitting leather, which requires special chemical auxiliaries to be achieved. In this context, our research has focused on the study of VOC volatile substances from car interiors, in particular on finishing systems, aiming at their reduction without losing the original performances of the finished leather article. Our investigation focused on full grain finished leathers, evaluating the contribution to the VOC emission from crust leather to the finished articles. A preliminary study showed that silicon compounds family brought an important contribution to the emission from a qualitative and quantitative perspective: these substances play a crucial role in terms of the final article performances (such as resistance), and quality. So, our investigation focused on innovative silicon-free auxiliary combination to give low VOC emission contribution from the leather compared with the same performances of the original silicon containing finishing. In order to evaluate the impact of the emissions, a series of analyses of the volatiles were performed: static headspace VDA 277 (and/or PV3341) analysis and active air sampling analysis GS 97014-3 type were performed, indicating that silicon contribution was very high in the emission. In addition, the quality of the leather was also assessed and characterised through standard automotive tests such as stick-slip, abrasion trials with Taber tester and Martindale machine, ball plate method, fogging test; rub fastness provided with Veslic tester (wet, dry, alcohol, gasoline), dry-rubbing trial with Gakushin tester. The set of result showed that standard leather containg silicon compounds on the finishing produced high VOC emission and high performance articles, thus contributing to VOC emission. Conversely, the novel finishing auxiliaries had low VOC emission, no silicons, yet high performance leather and therefore should be chosen from a more environmental point of view. Take-Away: Low VOC emission from novel leather finishing albeit high resistance leather.

Diplomová práce je zaměřena na porovnání dopadu fiskální politiky na výzkum a vývoj v automobilovém průmyslu mezi Českou republikou a Švédskem. Vyhodnocením současné situace v automobilovém průmyslu porovnává vývoj v automobilovém průmyslu pomocí ukazatelů, které ho ovlivňují. Hledá také impulsy pro zlepšení v oblasti VaV v České republice a Švédsku.

This thesis is focused on sustainable development of a company using PLM systém in the environment of an industrial company, that manufactures components for the automotive industry. In the theoretical part the life cycle of the product (PLM) is described as well as its demands and benefits. This is followed by an analysis of current IT environment, which contains basis for adjustments of the current system. Thank to them is possible to reduce narrow places of the slim production of the company, avoid wasting time and material, and above all to achieve sustainable development of the company while using current technologies.

Nowadays, sustainability has become a well-known and popular topic which has drawn the attention of many people worldwide. To fulfill their responsibility towards sustainability, the business world is shifting from an accounting-based accountability to an accountability-based accounting. Every renowned organization publishes their non- financial report, but quality of these reports is questionable. For the lack of a uniform structure, non-financial reports have become too complicated for some of the stakeholders to understand. To make things worse, the business entities publish non- financial reports highlighting their positive impacts but hide the negative aspects. However, these issues could not resist the interest of the stakeholders, rather they observe different independent index providers to know about the sustainability. We know non- financial reporting is not about figures rather it is about disclosures. However, it is very difficult to collect information from a non-financial report and compare them among industry peers. Therefore, we intend to examine if it is important to formulate a unique structure for the non-financial reporting.Though non-financial reporting is very different from financial reporting, it is very difficult for the readers to get the real picture of sustainability of any organization. The quality measurement of non-financial reports is a daunting task. To get a clear picture we collected the non-financial information of 12 automobile manufacturing groups from different geographical locations. We also observed 5 annual reports for each company and formulated our own index and conducted a quantitative study to answer our research question.We collected data from non-financial reports of our selected automobile companies to formulate our own index and collected index of these companies from the website of S&P Global. From the non-financial report, we also collected data about the length of the report, number of years compared for performance indicators, and if the report is audited or not. We collected the data about total asset of these companies and their return on asset.With the help of our theoretical framework where we discussed about CSR, stockholder theory, and legitimacy theory and formulated two hypotheses. To answer these hypotheses, we run a regression test to see if the variables used in our study have any predictable relationship or not. Hence we tested our data and concluded that it is important to formulate a unique structure for non-financial reporting.Non-financial reporting has come a long way since its appearance but to go even further and to fulfill the demand of the stakeholders, publishing such reports is not enough. Companies who publish such reports also need to ensure the quality and comparability. Though different organizations have different sustainability challenges, at least non- financial reports of a particular industry should follow a certain structure so that these reports can be compared.

Presented thesis deals with the conceptual design of an integrated 11-bit, dual, bipolar, DA converter with current output. Converter is designed in I3T50E proprietary technology of ONSemiconductor. The converter is of a segmented architecture with 6 MSB bits unary and 4 LSB bits binary weighted. Work also describes basic general properties of DA converters, topology examples with regard to the project assignment. The design is assumed for automotive industrial field of application. The operating temperature range is from -40 Deg.C. up to 175 Deg.C. The qualities of produced integrated converter are measured and results are discussed.

Diploma thesis presents a study focused at the current level of industrial robotsand ther applications in the machining process. It presents current technology used in the selected company to produce components for the automotive industry. Based on analysis of the finished products presents the possible ways of alternating the current technology to ensure the required quality of production. This thesis also includes a financial assessment of current technology.