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Today, Kanban is being used widely around the world. There are a lot of businesses apply Kanban in manufacturing production to promote improvement. Kanban can create great effect in automotive industry. However, the factor that make Kanban become one of the most worthy tool to use is that it can be utilized by any industry. From software houses to clothing manufacturers, as the underlying mechanism for managing the production chain can still be used. Zara can produce products continuously by…

TASK 2 Financial Resources Volkswagen is the world's largest automaker with its scale and resources bigger than most of its competitors. The company is financially stable and robust. In line with the recommendations suggested to Volkswagen to come out of the mess that it is embroiled in, the following resources would be required:-  R & D investment (€11.5 billion) must be focused towards ICE(Internal Combustible Engines).This would include the electrification of our vehicle portfolio, an…

The automobile, it has been around for decades and still is being advance and modernize to this day. Did you know that transportation produces 28% of all made emissions? Gas powered car shouldn’t be allowed on the roads anymore. They are too expensive, produce too much pollution and they cause too many deaths by car accidents. Here is why I think gas powered cars shouldn’t be allowed to roam the roads anymore. The price of cars has increased by thousands of dollars from when they were first…

Newton's Laws of Motion surround people everyday. People see them everyday but do they really know what they are and why they're here? The laws are here to understand why and what happens when using forces. Newton's laws have everything to do with forces and motion. There are three laws; the first being every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it. The second is the relationship between an object's mass m, its…

are wrong. “The value of women in the automotive industry continues to be recognized, and not just through promotions. Some companies including car manufacturers such as General Motors have even offered scholarships to encourage women to study for various fields in the automotive industry. Others include this as part of a general effort to increase the diversity of their work force, because even men know there aren’t enough women in their industry.There is great room for growth, and it is…

4. Disadvantages of Canada 4.1 High labor cost Although the labor cost in autos industry in Canada seem to be low compared to many countries such as Japan, Germany, USA, UK,… it is still relatively high compared to the world average and to 2 strongest competitor: China and especially Mexico. Because of high labor cost, the price of Canada product is much higher than China and Mexico product. As a result it will affect Canada automobile industry because Canada will lose a number of customers…

1. How do you adjust the pulling force of the mousetrap? Adjusting the length of the snapper will change the pulling force—making something move as it goes in a certain direction. Making the snapper on the mousetrap longer will decrease the pulling force and a shorter snapper will increase it.…

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, names serve as an important characterization tool, giving further insight into the novel. Names such as the Bokanovsky’s Process, Ford, and Bernard Marx, show the values and reasons for efficiency and stability in the society of Brave New World. Huxley’s apt use of allusion to modern leaders, ideas, and industry enhances understanding of the story. Bokanovsky’s Process is a way to create “standard men and women; in uniform batches”, used as a “major…

Lack of Female Agency in Time Travel Texts In many seminal time travel texts, genders fulfill certain archetypes that arise from societal gender roles. In the movies Back to the Future and The Time Traveler’s Wife and the novel Kindred, females have less agency, power, and independence than male characters, showing how time travel texts are inherently sexist. In the movie Back to the Future, Marty McFly accidentally travels to the past, only to have his teenaged mom romantically pursue him,…

Assignment 1 To have a sociologic perspective one must have a sociological imagination. A sociological imagination is a very complex perspective. There are so many factors that go into a sociological imagination that it cannot be summed up easily in one sentence. A sociological imagination takes history, social factors, personal factors, and social constructs into account. Each of these four things have many layers to take into account when explaining a sociological imagination. One of these…