A research on the modularization of production in the automobile industry and the reformation of production systems in the globally competitive age

本研究分析了全球竞争时代汽车及相关产业生产系统的最新变化。它具有以下几个特点：首先，它将生产系统的概念视为从研发、生产到分销、营销的广义概念。此外，调查的行业还包括半导体、机床、模具、钢铁、服装以及汽车。其次，它调查了与全球化和信息技术革命相关的生产系统改革，也就是说，对外国公司的调查范围从美国、英国、法国和德国到中国、韩国、越南、泰国和马来西亚等亚洲国家。第三，采用模块化生产系统作为关键词的原因是欧洲汽车工业引入了模块化生产系统，而下一代生产方法是许多行业正在发展的分工集成系统。

This research analyzed recent changes of production systems of the automobile and relating industries in the globally competitive age. It has a few features as follows:Firstly, it regards the concept of production system as the broad meaning from R&D and production to distribution and marketing. In addition, industries of surveys contain semi-conductor, machine tool, molding, iron steel, apparel as well as automobile. Secondly, it investigates the reformation of production systems relative to Globalization and the IT revolution, that is, surveys of foreign firms range from the United States of America, Britain, France and Germany to Asian countries of China, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. Thirdly, reasons that it adopted the modular production system as a keyword are the introduction of modular production system in European automobile industry and that the next-generation production methodology is the division-integration system developing in many industries.