Former Bundy Corp. and Kelsey-Hayes Corp. executive Joseph M. Gray is named president of AlliedSignal Automotive's new global antilock braking systems organization. Based at AlliedSignal's Southfield, MI, automotive headquarters, the new group...
In April, WAW detailed what goes on inside General Motors Corp.'s Worldwide Purchasing organization leading up to the actual awarding of contracts. The following article focuses on the awards process.Everything starts with the "annual costbook...
You wouldn't think that combat pilots on precision bombing sorties in the Middle East would have much in common with people fighting rush-hour traffic, or that space-shuttle astronauts navigating in orbit share much with a traveling salesman...
Dennis Sampey loves the new work schedule he started in February. The 46-year-old veteran of Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Truck day shift has an extra day off and doesn't have to wait in line when he does errands in the morning. Joyce Ingraham, a 33...
About 625 hourly workers at Chrysler is St. Louis North minivan plant are on temporary layoff as that facility is converted to build the T300 full-size pickup beginning in August. Mininvan production moves to the St. Louis South plant, which...
1994's industry boom helped GM to its best performance since 1988, Ford's since 1989 and Chrysler's since '93. The General still holds a commanding lead in car market share, but Ford is a close second in the competitive truck race.
The robots are coming." It was a sure-fire joke at the manufacturing trade journal I worked at 12 years ago. We'd sit around the conference table brainstorming new story ideas when the inevitable lull would settle in. Then somebody would blurt out...
Business Week reports in its Feb. 13 edition that the changing demographics of the U.S. population may adversely impact car and truck sales in the years ahead. Citing a Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago study, BW says that between 1970 and 1992 more...
The trade war brewing between the U.S. and Japan promises to be intense. Prelude to combat: Japanese automakers fall short of their promise to the Bush Administration to import $4 billion in U.S. auto parts for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1995...
Ford Motor Co.'s F-Series pickups may have outsold Chevrolet Motor Div.'s C/Ks by more than 65,000 units in 1994, but the bowtie folks are exacting revenge on the race track in the new NASCAR Super Truck series.NASCAR expects the growing...