Qualifications in the Automobile Industry

The Reaction of European Companies to the Japanese Lean Production System. This text brings together specialists from industry and from the academic world to address the challenge to European car manufacturers from Japanese competition. It suggests practical improvements to vocational qualification schemes and presents a united educational policy framework. The success of the Japanese automobile industry has been attributed to the concept of lean production, whereby competitive advantage is secured through combining industrial volume with skilled finishing. Against this background, European manufacturers have been combining resources to safeguard a key industry in the future economic development of Europe. This text brings together specialists from industry (both labour and management) and from the academic world to offer solutions to these challenges by way of practical improvement to vocational qualification schemes. It presents a united educational policy framework for all European motor manufacturers.

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