Prospective analysis about the world wide strategy of commercial vehicles development

• Autor(a) principal: Kubo, Pablo Yugo Yoshiura [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Delamaro, Mauricio Cesar [UNESP], De Souza Neto, Silvestre Prado, Vetter, Narã, Santos, Thiago Teixeira Dos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/2008-36-0398; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/70749
• topic: Delphi method; Intrinsic characteristics; Prospective analysis; Automobiles; Commercial vehicles; Managers; Product development; Planning

The main objective of this paper is to make a prospective analysis about the tendencies of the world wide strategies of commercial vehicles development, in relation of the current local and international scenery. It has been done a research by using the Delphi method, which consists into regulate, systematically, the presentation of questions about a specified problem to a group of specialists. In order to guarantee more representative data, it has been adopted three distinct groups: academics, OEMs managers and Tier 1 suppliers managers. The results showed that the three mentioned groups have similar opinion about the necessity of having a product development in the subsidiaries companies; also it has been pointed the necessity of having more taylor made vehicles, due to the intrinsic characteristics of this industry segment. Copyright © 2008 SAE International.