Topic: The Harbour Automotive Industry
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Speaker: Ron Harbour
Topics:
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Understand the health of the auto industry
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Gain insights to future productivity trends
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Will the Japanese threaten big 3 profits?
Ron Harbour kindly provides a special Harbour report
preview for
Detroit Chapter IIE members and guests.
The 2004 presentation is not yet scheduled, but is expected to be held in late July or August. Check this web site for more details.
Ronald E. Harbour is President of Harbour and Associates, Inc. Since 1983 Ron has been involved in a broad range of projects involving every major automotive manufacturer in North America, Europe and the Far East. Although primarily automotive focused, the Harbour organization has also helped a variety of non-automotive manufacturers in the improvement of cost, quality and productivity. Ron’s work has included factory operations improvements, new product development, investment and product cost reduction, product teardowns, strategic planning, competitive analysis and plant assessments. Ron is also one of the principal authors of The Harbour Report, in North America and Europe. In addition, Ron is a regular contributor to numerous newspapers and publications and authors a monthly article for Car Connection, an on-line automotive magazine. Ron is a member of the board of directors of the Society of Automotive Analysts and two tier one automotive suppliers.