Released on = September 13, 2006, 2:15 am

Press Release Author = Bharat Book Bureau

Industry = Automotive

Press Release Summary = Mumbai, India - Sept 11 - For the first time, it includes
overview Best Practice Assessments in each section, enabling you to quickly
establish what best practice in your sector.

Press Release Body = Now in its fourth global annual edition, the Global Best
Practices Statistical Yearbook is the culmination of 10 years of firm-level research
into the competitiveness of automotive component manufacturers.

For the first time, it includes overview Best Practice Assessments in each section,
enabling you to quickly establish what best practice in your sector is. Further
improved by a bigger than ever database of benchmarked firms, improved global data
coverage and more detailed sub-sector information, the study remains a definitive
guide to automotive supplier manufacturing best practice, and a unique opportunity
to compare your company\'s performance against it.

The Global Best Practices Statistical Yearbook can help you answer questions such as:

Are we meeting the rapidly changing standards of the global automotive industry?
How competitive are we really?
Do we know what defines global best practice standards? Do we meet them?
Where do we excel - and where do we fail?
Are we measuring our performance well enough?
Created with participation from companies like Becker, DaimlerChrysler, Dana,
Delphi, Faurecia, Federal Mogul, GM, Lear, Timken, Toyota, Visteon, Denso, Dunlop
and ZF Lemförder, it consists of six sections of firm-level statistical data,
grouped under six market driver indicators:

Cost control
Quality performance
Value chain flexibility
Value chain reliability
Human resource development
Product development
Key changes and improvements for 2006

Database growth: The underlying database has grown from 105 to 141 firms, an
increase in firm-level participation over the previous edition of 35%.
Best Practice Assessments: As a reaction to customer demand, we have included a Best
Practices assessment in each section, designed to provide a quick, but comprehensive
overview of best practice standards in the global automotive components industry
generally, in developed and developing economies more specifically, within
individual sub-sectors, at small versus large firms and finally between firms with
different market orientations ( vehicle assemblers versus the aftermarket ).
More detailed sub-sector information: As a result of the continued database growth,
firm-level benchmarking data is now disaggregated into 12 automotive component
manufacturing sub-sectors: Precision machining ( new to the 4th edition ), trim,
harnesses, electronics, foundry/forge, JIT assembly, metal forming/pressing, metal
fabrication, components, glass, heat transfer products, and other ( paint, rubber ).

Global orientation: The 2006 edition includes firm-level data from South Africa,
India, Thailand, China, Australia, Malaysia, USA, and Europe.
Methodology and measurement: Improved measurements in this edition include
production downtime due to materials unavailability, product industrialization lead
times, lifecycle profile of product ranges at firms, and capital expenditure as a
proportion of total sales.
Enhanced formulae, definitions and explanations: These have been further revised to
ensure readers gain maximum benefit from the content of the 4th yearbook.

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