This paper estimates the role of country-variety comparative advantage in the decision to offshore assembly of more than 2000 models of 197 car brands headquartered in 23 countries. While offshoring in the car industry has risen from 2000 to 2016, the top five offshoring brands account for half...

Grundlagen Takt und Fluss -- Heijunka – schnell wie eine Schildkröte -- Der variable Takt -- Taktzeitgruppen im variablen Takt -- Design-for-Takt und die ideale Fließmontage -- Beherrschung von Varianz in Montagen -- Erweiterte Konzepte im Automobilbau. .

This study aimed to test the impact of augmented reality (AR) use on student achievement and self-efficacy in vocational education and training. For this purpose, a marker-based AR application, called HardwareAR, was developed. HardwareAR provides information about characteristics of hardware...

Die Automobilindustrie ist einer der bedeutendsten Industriezweige in Deutschland, die sich ständig im Spannungsfeld aus Qualität, Produktivität und Kosten bewegt. Der globale Wettbewerb führt zu kürzeren Innovations- sowie Produktzyklen - die Kundenanforderungen zu einer umfangreichen...

Advocates of a global democratic parliament have expressed hopes that this would not only legitimize global governance in procedural terms, but also bring about more cosmopolitan policies. They point to the European Parliament as an example of a successful real existing democratic parliament...

The integrated circuit (IC) packaging and testing industry is an important link in the semiconductor industrial chain that may decide the success or failure of the foundry industry. The purpose of this study was to compare the competitiveness of the packaging and testing industry in the rear...

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting power provide guidelines for this choice. The two most...

Ursprünglich zielte die Gestaltung von Montagesystemen in Form von Fließsystemen auf eine gleichmäßig hohe Stückzahl eines einzelnen Produkts bei hohem Automatisierungsgrad ab. Aus Gründen wie z.B. ständig zunehmende Anforderungen durch Kundenwünsche oder Absatzveränderungen sind...

The European Union (EU) is often considered (at least in Europe) as a key actor in a globalized world. The aim of this presentation is to check the relevance of this perception which sometimes seems too Eurocentric to be honest. We used methodological tools coming from "Social Network Analysis"...