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General Motors with Lean Manufacturing
General Motors with
Lean Manufacturing

An Introduction of GM Global Manufacturing System

Operations Management Team Project

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Division of Business Administration, Hanyang Univ. ERICA
Ansan, December 2012

Contents

Part 1.Overview of General Motors 2
1.1 Why General Motors? 2
1.2 Introduction of General Motors 3
1.3 Basic Information 3
1.4 History of GM 4
1.5 GM's family 4 Part 2.Introduction of Lean Manufacturing 4
2.1 Definition 5
2.2 Lean and TPS 5
2.3 Theme: Efficiency 6 Part 3.GM’s Global Manufacturing System 6
3.1 Application of Lean Manufacturing 6
3.2 In-Progress Control and Verification 7
3.3 Process Failure and Effect Analysis 11
3.4 Quality Feedback/Feedforward 11
3.5 Quality System Management 13 Part 4.Comments 14
4.1 Achievements beyond Efficiency 14
4.2 A Too-Lean GM? 15 Bibliography 16

Part 1.Overview of General Motors

1.1 Why General Motors?
First automotive industry has started in 1885 since Karl Benz and Daimler develop gasoline engine cars. The early automotive industry was expensive ,slow and didn't escape from the design of the wagon type. But The introduction of Henry Ford's conveyor belt is way as to be able to mass-produced, it became the beginning of popularization. U.S. automotive company seek to enter into the world in Europe ,since 1920's and by combining U.S..'s car production technology and Europe's brand value, Europe emerged as the largest market in the world. At the European economy will recover in 1950, U.S. has grown enough to occupy 80% in world market and Europe built a new product differentiation and diversification strategy in order to correspond to U.S. At this point should be noted that Japan's inroad into world market. Because of Korean war, Japan laid the foundation of growth and The 1960's, global automotive market is growing, Japan



Bibliography: * [http://www.gm.com] * Womack, James P.; Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos. The Machine That Changed the World,1990. * Bailey, David (24 January 2008). "Automotive News calls Toyota world No. 1 car maker". Reuters.com. Reuters. Retrieved 19 April 2008. * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing#cite_note-Reuters-3] * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System] * Strategos-International. Toyota Production System and Lean Manufacturing. * [http://www.autointell-news.com/News-2003/January-2003/January-2003-1/January-03-03-p6.htm], GM 's Global Manufacturing System - A System To Build Great Cars and Trucks. * Jerry Siebenmark, A Too-Lean GM?, 2010.

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