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Manufacturing Industry

Car Manufacture

Car manufacture has seen more change as the result of ICT than many other manufacturing industries. The industry is expremely competiitve and there has been global over capacity for some time. In this envirometn the fittest survive.

Making and selling cars is a very competitive industry. Over recent years many of the smaller companies have gone out of business or have been taken over by the well-known car giants like the Ford Motor Company. Modern ICT systems are used in the industry to improve efficiency, lower costs and increase sales. Without investing in ICT systems, companies would not be competitive in the marketplace

From the point where the motor manufacturer's research and development team come up with a new idea for a car, ICT is involved in every process of making the vehicle. The first stage involves using the computer design software to produce 3D (three-dimensional) images of the new car. CAD (Computer Aided Design) software is used to produce accurate scale drawings for all the components that make up the vehicle. These drawings include the exact dimensions and materials needed and this information is then passed from the design software to the computensed machinery that make the parts. The linking of the design software through a network to the manufacturing machinery is known as CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacture). Often parts are made by other companies and shipped to the factory to be assembled. When this happens, the data on the parts needed is passed to the third company.

   

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