For Low Costs and Happy Customers Create Flexible Automation

Author : Donald Mitchell The General Motors approach to automation has been inflexible It did optimize costs if you made tremendous numbers of exactly the same vehicle If you needed to change over to offer vehicle variations, the robots needed a lot of tending Toyota countered that challenge by automating relatively stable processes such as the link between a customer's order in a dealer showroom and the parts order process, while not automating that which would be desirable to change qu

Automakers Perk Up Incentives

Detroit automakers perk up incentives by offering new or extended promotions like zero-percent financing after sales rebound in May. The move is in connection with the findings that higher incentives augmented the previous month’s rebound in the United States vehicle sales after the weak April results. To keep the momentum, the automakers are offering said promotions. In May, the General Motors Corp. ’s average incentive was $2,950 per vehicle and that amount is up by 6. 1 percent from

North American Car of the Year’s Hybrid Version

Earlier this year at the Detroit Auto Show, the Saturn Aura was named as the 2007 North American Car of the Year. This distinction gave the Saturn brand a boost in terms of popularity among car buyers. This award also leads to Saturn using a new marketing campaign which pits the Aura against the Honda Accord and the Toyota Camry. The distinction shows that General Motors is serious in its effort to revitalize the brand. And recently, the North American Car of the Year winner was given a hy

Local residents maintain hope for GM (WUTR - WFXV Utica)

Local car aficionados said they were hopeful that General Motors will get back on its feet. My first car was a '68 Camaro, said Ed Castellano, of Unadilla. The 47-year-old Franklin Central School bus driver also builds custom hot rods.

Local residents maintain hope for GM (The Daily Star)

Local car aficionados said they were hopeful that General Motors will get back on its feet.My first car was a '68 Camaro, said Ed Castellano, of Unadilla. The 47-year-old Franklin Central School bus driver also builds custom hot rods.I loved that car, he said. He's also had a 1972 Corvette, a GM van and a Chevy pickup over the years.