Abstract
Japanese automobile manufacturers have maintained global competitiveness in the past by providing high quality, low cost vehicles. Recently, however, the strength of the yen and a recovering U.S. automobile industry has put the Japanese automobile export market in a precarious position.
Similarly, it is becoming apparent that, as information technology dramatically changes and advances, Japan lags behind in the field of key software and middle-ware technologies. In this environment, re-engineering of business processes in the automobile industry is becoming more important as a method to recover and maintain competitiveness in both the information and automobile industries as Japan moves towards the 21st century.
Consequently, the V-CALS consortium was established in May of this year by five major Japanese car manufactures, parts and die suppliers and other related companies. This enterprising project encompasses conformance testing to achieve virtual vehicle development while striving to merge competition with cooperation. This paper explains the aims of this consortium and gives an outline of the V-CALS project, focusing on the requirements for next-generation PDM, and trial use of STEP, EDI and SGML.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Structural Reform of Technology and the Japanese Economy, Shiro Kurihara, Business Review Vol.43, No.4
Research Project for the Practical Application of CALS in the Automobile Industry (V-CALS), V-CALS Consortium, May 1996
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1997 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this paper
Cite this paper
Mase, T. (1997). Vehicle CALS --A big challenge to virtual development. In: Goossenaerts, J., Kimura, F., Wortmann, H. (eds) Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing. DIISM 1996. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35063-9_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35063-9_1
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4757-5475-9
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-35063-9
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive