Japanese keep labor cost lead

From: Automotive Industries | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

When it comes to highest productivity and lowest labor costs, Japanese automakers' North American plants continue to beat their General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler counterparts by a long shot

That's one of the major findings of the 1999 Harbour Report, the annual analysis of auto industry plant efficiency published by Harbour and Assoc., a Troy, Mich-based manufacturing consultancy.

As the accompanying chart shows, Toyota, Nissan and Honda again needed many fewer total labor hours, in their assembly, powertrain and stamping operations, to build each 1998 vehicle, than the former U.S. ...

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