The Emergence of Chinese-Influenced Design as an International Automotive Design Language

Design Issues ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Fortune 500 ◽  
Marketing Manager ◽  
Design Organization ◽  
Automotive Manufacturing ◽  
Automotive Design ◽  
Design Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Force

This article aims to explore the emergence of Chinese automotive design as an international automotive design language. In the past, the Chinese automotive industry was criticized for copying foreign designs. However, recently, favorable government policies and a strong home market have encouraged local brands to explore their unique cultural heritage. The article further investigates how Chinese aesthetics have been adopted by major international auto brands, and finally how a new Chinese car brand is aiming to transform Chinese-influenced automotive design into a global force. Focusing on Geely Design, the globally-based design organization of the Chinese automotive manufacturing giant Zhejiang Geely Holdings group, this article reflects the view of a professional marketing manager with work experience in the Chinese automotive industry and a Fortune 500 Chinese car manufacturer.

Research on Automotive Design Chain Innovation

2013 ◽  
Vol 712-715 ◽  
pp. 2961-2965
Author(s):  
Xue Fei Huang ◽  
Jian Qi Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Basic Solution ◽  
Automotive Manufacturing ◽  
Design Capacity ◽  
Automotive Design ◽  
Design Chain ◽  
Relational Degree ◽  
Pillar Industry ◽  
Independent Design

The automotive industry is an industry with high relational degree, and automotive industry has become a pillar industry. At this stage, a large number of OEM (original equipment manufacturing) cooperation made the car ownership a sharp rise. However, the independent design capacity raised limitedly, and the design capacity depend on foreign. Based on the analysis of the auto industry, this paper started from aspect research such as basic research, automotive design and management, automotive manufacturing, recycling and re-manufacturing, policy and education, and explored the major factor which impede the generation of the China's automotive design chain. And we proposed some basic solution ideas. Industrial design plays an important role in building China's "automotive design chain". In a regional perspective, we focus on the importance on institutional innovation and the five base service platforms for building the design chain, and improve the automotive design chain level.

scholarly journals Assessment of back pain and disability status among automotive industry workers, in Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Wondosen Hailu ◽  
Mulusew Getahun ◽  
Ahmed Mohammed ◽  
Negash Nurahmed ◽  
Zemachu Ashuro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Automotive Manufacturing ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Disability Status

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Back pain is a very common public health problem in the manufacturing industry and a major cause of disability that affects work performance and wellbeing. Currently, manufacturing sectors in Ethiopia, including automotive manufacturing is growing well but there is poor culture of work place safety. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of back pain and disability status at Bishoftu automotive industry workers.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> A cross sectional study was conducted among 412 workers in a period of February to May 2018. Simple random sampling technique was applied to select participants. Data was collected by face-to-face interview using standard Nordic and Oswestry back pain disability index tools. Analysis was done by using SPSS version 24. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to determine associations.  </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> Prevalence of work related back pain among automotive production factory workers during last 12 months and last seven days were 51.7% and 25% respectively and related disability was 87%. The risk factors of the work related back pain that were identified include; work experience (11-15 years) AOR: 0.02, 95% CI (0.001-0.46), tasks that involve bending and twisting AOR: 2.03, 95% CI (1.19-3.45) and lifting of heavy loads AOR: 4.89, 95% CI (2.83-8.47).</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> High prevalence of back pain among automotive industry workers was seen. Furthermore, this study verified workers with back pain and more specifically those working in tasks that involve with the identified associated risk factors were suffer from disability. The problem should need more attention to promote the health and safety of workers.</p>

scholarly journals Industrial Examples of Formal Specifications for Test Case Generation

10.29007/z9ph ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Roehm ◽  
Rainer Gmehlich ◽  
Thomas Heinz ◽  
Jens Oehlerking ◽  
Matthias Woehrle
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Test Case Generation ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Formal Specifications ◽  
Discrete Events ◽  
The Past ◽  
Formal Representations

While requirements engineering has received considerable attention inacademia over the past years, formalization of requirements for physicallyinfluenced systems is still a difficult task in practice. In this paper, we giveformal representations of some typical requirement classes arising in theautomotive industry. We divide these patterns into three main classes:those mostly referring to properties of continuous signals, those mostlyreferring to discrete events and those referring to similarity to a referencesignal. We discuss these patterns on concrete examples from automotiveembedded systems, where specifications are used for test case generation.

scholarly journals Community College Ceramics and Student Research: Cooperative Work Experience Projects in the Arts

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-60
Author(s):  
Amiko Matsuo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Natural Clay ◽  
Melting Points ◽  
Eutectic Melting ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Clay Deposits ◽  
Student Researchers

For the past three semesters in the Fine Arts Program at Allan Hancock College, student researchers have been sampling, researching, and firing natural clay deposits found in the campus region. Students research local clays by firing them at various temperatures and adding variable fluxes to experiment with eutectic melting points. A cooperative work experience project is being piloted to develop a model outreach/interdisciplinary curricular guide for the Minerals Resources Program.

Ekonomická výkonnost zpracovatelského průmyslu v severočeských mikroregionech v kontextu reindustrializace

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Václav Novák ◽  
Jaroslav Koutský ◽  
Rudolf Kubaš ◽  
Šárka Palcrová
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Accounting Data ◽  
The Past

The paper focuses on micro-regional structures in the Northern Bohemia, for which the tradition of industrial production is typical. In the case of the studied Děčín and Česká Lípa regions, in the past it was mainly a light processing industry. The micro-regions were defined on the basis of daily commuting data. Firm accounting data available in publicly available financial statements of companies were used to evaluate economic performance. From the relative indicators, value added labor productivity and the average monthly wage were used for the analysis. Surprisingly, an average high economic performance of the manufacturing industry was found in the monitored geographical structures. However, relatively low in the strongest industry, ie. in the automotive industry, which contributed most to the reindustrialisation of the Česká Lípa region. Ie. that foreign investment did not necessarily play a comprehensively positive role here. The typical textile industry in the Děčín region has practically completely disappeared and the whole region shows significant deindustrialisation tendencies.

Improving Workforce Education Learning Outcomes

2018 ◽  
pp. 1368-1390
Author(s):  
Carsten Schmidtke
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Workforce Education ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The U.S

Despite numerous attempts over the past few decades to prepare the U.S. workforce for the increasing challenges of a global economy, educators hear the same complaints from industry about how difficult it is to find highly skilled workers. The growing need to have a higher level of education and different knowledge, skills, and attitudes than in the past brought on by globalization makes the task of preparing workers for tomorrow's workplace even more daunting. Whatever the reason for dropping out, many young people have clearly not responded to the attempt to educate them through full-time schooling, no matter how innovative the program. This chapter argues that more adolescents can be educated in a school system that no longer emphasizes full-time schooling but instead combines part-time school with part-time real-world work experience. To carry out such an approach, it may be time to expand our horizons in the search for solutions, and we can find some guidance in a rather unexpected place, the work of Soviet educator Anton Semyonovich Makarenko. Makarenko's success in training young people to become productive workers includes several concepts and methods that may be useful in improving today's workforce education system.

Bayern Brauerei

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Robert F. Bruner
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Sales Volume ◽  
Marketing Manager ◽  
The Past ◽  
Financial Plan ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Compensation Plan ◽  
Quarterly Dividend

A new director of this small brewery must prepare to vote on three issues coming before the board of directors the next day: (1) approval of the financial plan for 1993, (2) quarterly dividend declaration, and (3) incentive-compensation plan for the marketing manager. The tasks for the student are to evaluate the past and prospective financial performance of the company and to assess the extremely liberal credit and inventory terms the company is extending to its distributors. The objective of the case is to introduce and exercise tools and concepts of financial-statement analysis. Perhaps the biggest insight gained by students concerns the link between incentives and financial performance: in this case, the marketing manager is motivated to build sales volume, which he accomplishes by a dramatic buildup in receivables and inventory.

A dynamic model of strategic outsourcing with emphasis on human resources and work experience in power industry of Iran

Kybernetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 2285-2308
Author(s):  
Mohsen Shafie Nikabadi ◽  
Delshad Hoseini
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Electric Power Industry ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Strategic Outsourcing ◽  
Qualitative Factors

Purpose The production of a good or service requires that the supplier performs a wide range of activities. Many companies are trying to fit outsourcing with the dimensions of their organization. Outsourcing is increasingly being used among Iranian companies in the field of the electric power industry. Human resources are among the factors that consider outsourcing as an obstacle for their growth because staffs declare that the development of outsourcing is a serious threat for unemployment of them and ultimately expulsion from work. Thus, this study surveys the dynamic effects of human resources and work experience on outsourcing decisions. This paper aims to propose a model for dynamic strategic outsourcing focusing on human resource and work experience. Design/methodology/approach Presenting a model for strategic outsourcing can help organizations to resolve their outsourcing problems. The data needed for examining the dynamic impact of human resources and work experience on outsourcing have been compiled using library and field studies. The method used in this study is an integrated approach, so the model could consider the general effects of manpower and present a systematic view. After interviewing with experts in power industry, the causal relationships of the variables were determined, and a dynamic model based on the applications of the dynamic system was developed in VENSIM software. The research model will be completed in a three-year period (2016-2019) in the power industry of Iran. Findings For completing projects in an organization, cooperation between internal employees and external contractors is needed; thus, results based on both external contractors and internal staff have shown that outsourcing through working of a number of contractors will be more effective than frequent use of one contractor. On the other hand, improving the quality of projects could be done by training new employees using skilled and expert employees. Originality/value Existence of one-dimensional models (only with qualitative factors or only with quantitative factors) in the context of outsourcing in the past studies has prompted to study different types of factors together as a dynamic model. This paper presents a quantitative and qualitative model in the field of strategic outsourcing with emphasis on human resources and work experience. In the past studies, there was no way to formulate the qualitative factors, and they simply used the data from the organization, and the only formulation in their works was based on quantitative factors. But in this study, both factors with dynamic modeling have been formulated.

A Feasibility Report on the Comparsion of the Characteristics of Manufacturing a Bearing Cover by the Processes of Sand Casting and Shell Moulding

2018 ◽  
Vol 1148 ◽  
pp. 204-210
Author(s):  
M.Madhu Vamsi ◽  
V. Pradeep Kumar ◽  
S.H. Shariff
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Fuel Efficiency ◽  
Cast Aluminum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Casting Alloys ◽  
Aluminum Castings ◽  
Cast Alloys ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
Cast Microstructure

The use of aluminum castings in the automotive industry has increased dramatically over the past two decades. The Al-Si system forms the basis of many important casting alloys, LM 0, LM 2, LM 4, LM 5, LM 6, LM 12, LM 13, LM 24 and LM 26 are the major cast alloys used in aerospace casting (e.g., fuel pump connectors) and premium automotive castings (e.g., suspension arms). The driving force for this increased use is vehicle weight reduction for improved performance, particularly fuel efficiency. In many cases the mechanical properties of the cast aluminum parts are superior to those of the cast iron or wrought steel parts being replaced; however, in some applications, defects in the cast microstructure undermine performance characteristics.

scholarly journals Exploring plasticity in the development path of the automotive industry in Baden-Württemberg: the role of combinatorial knowledge dynamics

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Strambach ◽  
Benjamin Klement
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Development Path ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge Dynamics ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Gradual Transformation

AbstractProfound insights into why some regional paths remain dynamic over several decades while others follow a bumpy road and become stuck in the past are still scarce. This paper addresses this gap by contributing to a deeper understanding of dynamics within territorial paths. It focuses on organizational and institutional changes connected with so-called combinatorial knowledge dynamics. We claim that especially innovations based on the transversal combination of separated knowledge bases are connected to the gradual transformation, recombination or creation of institutions at the microlevel. This contribution explores the dynamics within the automotive industry of Baden-Württemberg by providing a meso-level overview of the trajectory of its technological and institutional development as well as an analysis of a case study that illustrates the gradual institutional change on the micro-level in the course of knowledge combination.

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