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Editor's Note: The price of progress for Volvo

2011-01-01T09:49:09Z

It’s widely believed that there is no such thing as a free lunch. In support of this truism, we can examine the case of Chinese carmaker Geely. Having bought Volvo from Ford in August for about RMB 11.3bn ($1.7bn), the Swedish premium vehicle manufacturer looked to be on considerably firmer ...

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Pressing ahead at Volvo

2009-03-01T09:57:35Z

Volvo Car’s new transfer line is the latest interpretation of so-called classical manufacturing. AMS talks with Jonas Knutsson about the technologies that make it possibleNew take on an old ideaHaste makes no wasteAlist of the attributes of a classical manufacturing ‘transfer line’ reads like a litany of everything that modern ...