US Auto Benchmarking

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The paper relates that the US Auto company should consider benchmarking as a method of diminishing certain negative aspects, improving positive ones and eventually amplify the company's profit. The paper analyzes Ford Motor Company and Toyota Motor Company and shows how they represent two different cultures, two different types of management and two different models that can serve US Auto's best interests.

From the Paper:

"US Auto is an American car manufacturer with an important past on the American car market, but with a less brilliant present and future, as the company is currently struggling for survival. The company's main negative issues that need to be corrected are related to outdated line plant assets, inflated labor costs, and lack of any significant prospects that could provide some sort of boost in the company's future profitability. The only aspect that US Auto is putting its hopes on is a hybrid gas-electric engine that the company has created. Given the fact that negotiations with AutoMex have failed, the company must find other strategies to help it survive."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Putting Hybrids on the Road (2007). Ford Motor Company. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from http://www.ford.com/en/innovation/technology/puttingHybridsOnTheRoad.htm.
• Toyota Production System (2007). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System.
• Overview of Toyota's North American Engineering and Manufacturing (2007). Toyota Motor Sales. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from http://www.toyota.com/about/operations/manufacturing/index.html.

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