Man + Machine: raising output and quality to keep pace with China's demand
The booming market is setting new kinds of production challenges. The objective now is rapidly-increasing quality standards which satisfy discerning Chinese buyers in a highly competitive marketplace, while delivering the volume to meet the demand.
Automation and the latest technologies are a part of that. But so too is low labour cost. The right blend of man and machine in the Chinese context is the overall theme of the first AMS China conference.
The conference will bring together domestic and jv OEMs, and the principal Tier suppliers, with the providers of all the technologies which make up vehicle manufacture and assembly. Attendance is at the VP/production director and plant management level, and will be from within China and the rest of the world.
Subject matter will cover:
- OEM strategies
- Production and plant case studies, and the blend of labour and automation
- Sessions on specific technologies, from forging, stamping and cutting, and BIW and paintshop, and on to robotics, test and measurement
- Skills and human factors
- Automation, and the planning & management of the digital factory
- The green and clean environment required for 2010 production.