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ROMANIA: Ford starts EcoBoost production at Craiova
11 May 2012
Ford has started volume production of EcoBoost engines at its new factory in Craiova, Romania.
JAPAN: Yazaki secures DoJ deal to pay US$470m price-fixing fine in five tranches
1 February 2012
Japanese component supplier Yazaki says it will pay off its gargantuan price-fixing fine in five installments starting this year.
JAPAN: Yazaki top two return salaries as DoJ stuns with US$470m price-fixing fine
1 February 2012
Yazaki's chairman and president will return half of their salaries for three months in response to the US Department of Justice's (DoJ) enormous price-fixing fine.
JAPAN: Denso pays US$78m as DoJ imposes massive cartel fines
1 February 2012
Denso has concluded a plea agreement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and will pay a fine of US$78m based on charges it violated anti-trust laws in connection with sales of certain automotive components, specifically, certain body electronic control units and heater control panels to one of its customers.
US: "Pernicious cartel" sees Yazaki and Denso pay huge price-fixing fine
31 January 2012
Two Japanese suppliers of automotive electrical components -Yazaki and Denso -have agreed to plead guilty and to pay a total of US$548m in criminal fines for their involvement in multiple price-fixing and bid-rigging conspiracies in the sale of parts to automobile manufacturers in the US, the Department of Justice has announced.
ROMANIA: Yazaki’s Craiova plant starts operations
7 October 2011
Yazaki Romania has opened a new factory in Craiova supplying the auto industry with cabling systems. This factory will be the main provider for the Ford factory in Craiova but will also produce for other Ford units.
CHINA: Geely forms wiring harness JV with Japan’s Yazaki Sogyo
13 September 2011
Geely has taken another step in improving its supply chain by agreeing to a joint venture partnership with Japanese wiring harness company Yazaki Sogyo Kabushiki Kaisha.
US: Yazaki signs deal with Evatran for hands-free EV charging
2 June 2011
Yazaki North America has inked a deal with inductive recharging system manufacturer Evatran Partner to commercialise hands-free technology.
US: Takata subsidiary raided by FBI in antitrust investigation
11 February 2011
The Auburn Hills (Michigan) offices of TK Holdings - Takata's North American operations subsidiary - were raided this week by FBI agents and Department of Justice officers as part of an antitrust investigation.
June 2010 Management Briefing: Vehicle instrumentation and the danger of 'information overload'
29 June 2010
As the information flood spills out of the home and office into the vehicle, there is a danger of overloading the driver. Matthew Beecham finds out what the industry is doing to give us what we increasingly want, but not too much...
ANALYSIS: Anti-trust raids could start an ugly new era of automaker-supplier relations
1 March 2010
Carmakers open up wounds by complaining to authorities, says SupplierBusiness. But did parts makers engage in illegal collusion or was it a natural evolution of business strategy?
US: FBI raids three Toyota suppliers
25 February 2010
The US offices of three Japanese automotive parts suppliers to Toyota - Denso, Tokai Rika and Yazaki - were raided on Tuesday by the Detroit office of the FBI over allegations of price-fixing, media reports said.
RESEARCH ANALYSIS: Review of instrumentation
7 January 2010
For some time, we’ve seen cockpit designers working on ways in which to display more information yet make the dash appear less complex. The general approach is to ensure that only the most essential information is displayed while remaining features are available in the background or brought up at will. Matthew Beecham reports on how the increasing fitment of sophisticated mobile multimedia systems, as well as safety and security items suggests that this part of the interior is still in its infancy in terms of development.
JAPAN: 'Old' GM pays off some supplier debts
15 July 2009
Denso and Yazaki have received partial payments for accounts receivable from failed General Motors Corp through a US government financial support programme, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
US: Japanese Tier-1s apply for US federal aid
24 April 2009
Two Japanese OE parts suppliers have reportedly applied for the US government's USD5bn financial aid package aimed at helping struggling Tier 1s.
Q&A with Yazaki North America
25 July 2008
Superficially, instruments appear much the same today as they did 30 years ago, but they have changed extensively in that time and they are likely to change even more. Matthew Beecham talked with Dimitri Baudon, product manager, Yazaki North America, Inc about he sees the vehicle instrumentation sector shaping-up.
RESEARCH ANALYSIS: Review of vehicle instrumentation
7 July 2008
Despite the smooth lines and simple appearance, the cockpit is one of the most complicated and tightly packaged assemblies in a vehicle. Matthew Beecham reports on some novel ways in which to display more information yet make the cockpit appear less complex.
Q&A with Yazaki North America
12 February 2007
As part of our bi-annual review of vehicle cockpits and instrumentation, Matthew Beecham talked to Doug Burcicki, senior manager, marketing and product management, Yazaki North America (YNA), and Dutch Adachi, senior manager, display technology group, electronic and instrumentation business unit, Yazaki North America, about how the company is pushing back the technical boundaries in the vehicle instrumentation arena.
RESEARCH ANALYSIS: Review of developments in vehicle instrumentation
8 February 2007
Superficially, instrument clusters appear much the same today as they did 30 years ago, but they have changed extensively in that time and they are likely to change even more by 2010. Matthew Beecham reports on how the humble speedo has become a hot-bed of technical wizardry.
US: Yazaki names new transplant business head
16 October 2006
Yazaki North America has named Nobuhiro Onishi executive vice president, YNA, and president, transplant business unit (TBU).
RESEARCH ANALYSIS: Wiring tomorrow’s car
17 August 2006
Although conventional round wire harnesses continue to evolve to support additional electronic content in vehicles, the technology has remained much the same over the last fifty years. Going forward with steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire technologies emerging, can the current wiring harnesses technology cope? What about alternatives such as fibre optics? Matthew Beecham reports.
RESEARCH: Q&A with Yazaki North America
7 August 2006
Yazaki Corp manufactures and markets a wide range of products, most prominent among them being the automotive wiring harness. Yazaki is the world’s largest manufacturer of wire harnesses, supplying harnesses to the major vehicle makers worldwide. In June 2006 Matthew Beecham talked with Doug Burcicki, senior manager of marketing and product management and Fawaz Baltaji, product manager of data links, about how the company is pushing back the technical boundaries in the vehicle electrical and electronic distribution systems arena.
US: GM presents supplier awards
2 May 2006
GM presented 85 companies with Supplier of the Year awards on Saturday at a celebration at its Vehicle Engineering Centre in Warren, Michigan.
SWEDEN: Supplier helps Ford revamp purchasing relations
17 October 2005
Autoliv is one of the first seven suppliers Ford picked for new long-term global contracts. Ford wants to improve its relations with partsmakers, reported Automotive News Europe.
USA: Some win, some lose from Ford's new deal for suppliers
30 September 2005
A new deal announced by Ford on Thursday contains both good and bad news for suppliers.
USA: Automotive suppliers team up for hurricane relief
7 September 2005
Promax Automotive and Yazaki North America Inc. have announced a joint effort to provide relief to victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Promax Automotive Supplier Center near the Nissan assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi has been approved by FEMA and Homeland Security as an official collection site.
USA: Study shows that mergers, acquisitions or outsourcing are key to suppliers' survival
4 August 2005
Preliminary results of a new study of the automotive supply chain show, contrary to widely held perceptions, that mergers, acquisitions or outsourcing are the keys to suppliers' survival and are being driven by their customers.
UK: French fastener specialist aims for growth in China
8 June 2005
International second-tier suppliers are widely perceived to be among the new plant the companies most at risk from emerging competition from the Chinese market. But French supplier A Raymond has turned its Chinese operation into an export base for the region and back into Europe, and reckons that it can compete effectively in the growing local automotive business.
Automotive networking
6 May 2005
The use of electronics in vehicles has seen a considerable rise over the last decade. Can the current wiring and multiplexing harnesses within today’s vehicles cope with so many electrical components? What are the alternatives? Matthew Beecham reports.
USA: Yazaki to bring high voltage expertise to US
12 April 2005
Yazaki North America will transfer technical expertise supporting high-voltage engineering and manufacturing capabilities from its operations in Japan to North America.
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