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PPT : Innovation in the Automotive Parts Industry : A Case Study of the Windsor Essex Region

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* Structure and composition of the automotive parts industry in Windsor-Essex
- ‘core’ automotive parts
- machinery, tool, die and moulds
* Innovation in the Windsor-Essex automotive industry
* Windsor-Essex tool, die and mould (TDM) cluster
- origin and evolution
- learning and innovation
* Challenges facing the Windsor-Essex TDM cluster
* Conclusion

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The Automotive Industry in Windsor-Essex
* 500 plants employing over 48,000
* Segments
o OEM assembly (and parts)
o ‘Core’ auto parts (Tier 1 and Tier 2)
o Machinery, tool and die, mould (MTDM)
o Other
+ Metal fabrication and treatment
+ ‘Services’ – e.g. sequencing, packaging

* Many tied to OEM assembly plants in Detroit/Windsor
* Older and larger (90-400 workers)
* Segments
o OEM captive plants
o Leading Tier 1 TNCs (e.g. Lear, Magna, Siemens, Krupp Fabco)
o Canadian-based Tier 2 suppliers

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Innovation in the Windsor-Essex
Auto Parts Industry
o DCX and Ford links to University of Windsor
* ‘Core’ Auto Parts
o variant of entrepôt model
o R&D takes place elsewhere in TNC
o intra-firm and OEM-firm knowledge transfers
o incremental process innovation at plant level
* MTDM
o a classic regionally embedded cluster
o incremental product and process innovation
o importance of informal/tacit knowledge over patenting

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