Foresight vehicle technology : consumer driven design, manufacturing, supply chain, and purchasing

The papers contained in this volume are all the product of the Foresight Vehicle Initiative, the UK Government's flagship programme of advanced research into future technology for road transport for the coming decades. Contents Include: The UK Foresight Vehicle Programme; Foresight Vehicle Programme - Customer Understanding Processes in Design; Foresight Vehicle Project: Increased Customer Responsiveness Through Late Product Configuration; the Foresight Vehicle Programme - Towards Inclusion of the Styling Studio in Concurrent Development; Vehicle Foresight: Customer Correlation of Engine Components Tests Using Life Prediction Modelling; The ULTra Personal Rapid Transit System; Order Systems for 3DayCar: Collaborative IT for Enterprise-Wide Optimization Through Build to Order; The Three-Day Car - How to Make 'Build to Order' Happen; Foresight Vehicle: Investigating the Effects of Downstream Channel Relationships on New Product Launch Outcomes; Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Automotive Product Benchmarking for Foresight Vehicles; Forecasting the Future of European Automotive Retailing: A Foresight Vehicle Research Project; Managing Variability in the Automotive Supply Chain: A Case Study from the Lean Processing Programme (LEAP); Minimum Reasonable Inventory and the Bullwhip Effect in an Automotive Enterprise: A Foresight Vehicle Demonstrator; COGNET: Implementing a Successful Vehicle Manufacturer/Supplier Co-Development Initiative; Sustaining Process Improvement Activities - Foresight Vehicle Programme; A Virtual Environment for Aesthetic Quality Assessment of Flexible Assemblies in the Automotive Design Process; Component Based Distributed Control Systems for Automotive Manufacturing Machinery Developed Under the Foresight Vehicle Programme; Human Factors Issues in the Application of a Novel Process Description Environment for Machine Design and Control Developed Under the Foresight Vehicle Programme; Distributed Engineering of Automotive Manufacturing Machines Under the Foresight Vehicle Programme; A User-Oriented Interface Methodology for Automotive Manufacturing Machines Developed Under the Foresight Vehicle Programme; Foresight Vehicle Responsive Design and Operation of Flexible Manpower Lines; Modelling and Improving Maintenance Decisions: Having Foresight with Simulation and Artificial Intelligence.