Faster time to market, rapid vehicle assembly and improved resource management are significant factors driving the outsourcing of cockpit modules. Cost will remain the main driver for outsourcing cockpit assembly, while constraints on production or resource capacity will provide potential reasons for outsourcing cockpit engineering and design. Program management, manufacturing flexibility and logistics are the most evident benefits to vehicle manufacturers, although definite cost savings are still difficult to assess in the modular approach due to certain perceived hidden costs.
Potentially dispelling a long held myth about women being bigger shoppers, men actually report spending more on gifts and entertaining over the holiday season, according to a new Visa survey of credit and debit cardholders. Results of the survey show that men say they spend an average of $1,288 for the holidays, which is over a hundred dollars more than women who report spending $1,186.
The New York Employee Confidence Index increased 7.5 points to 60.4 in October as more workers reported optimism in the economy and their personal employment prospects, according to the Spherion(R) Employment Report, a monthly survey conducted by Harris Interactive(R) on behalf of Spherion Corporation.
Business executives around the world believe that protectionism is on the rise in both developed and emerging markets, according to a new Economist Intelligence Unit survey and report commissioned by UK Trade & Investment. The report outlines some of the strategies that companies are using to deal with the problems caused by protectionism.
The UK energy gap is much larger and closer than currently being reported, according to a new white paper issued by LogicaCMG, a leading provider of business services to the energy sector. Within ten years the gap could cost UK businesses over GBP108 billion a year.
The Conference Board announced today that the U.S. leading index increased 0.2 percent, the coincident index increased 0.1 percent and the lagging index increased 0.2 percent in October.
The Conference Board announced today that the leading index for Spain increased 0.7 percent and the coincident index increased 0.3 percent in September.
Telecommunications in China can be characterised by creativity and daring one minute, and by caution and dithering the next. China is also the largest mobile communications market in the world.
The Conference Board reports today that the leading index for France increased 0.2 percent and the coincident index decreased 0.1 percent in September.
All sectors in the DTV industry chain are interdependent and playing different roles. The upstream products can only produce value when they reach the end users through the industry chain.
