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(1) CABIN TRIM

This parts require various material and manufacturing skill because the customer can see it with one's own eyes. The points to be duly considered are not only good appearance but safe.
① DOOR TRIM : DOOR TRIM means inner door, stick the ARMREST your elbow lay upon and MAP POCKET to insert map in, DOOR LOCK or wheel, window switch on it.
② REAR PSHELF : Shelf-shaped part placed in between rear seat and windows, call it name of REAR PACKAGE TRAY. stick SPEAKER GRILLE or STOP LAMP on it.
③ SUNVISOR : Sun covering for keeping driver's eyes from direct ray of light.
④ HEAD LINING : Call a ceiling interior name of HEAD LINING. absorbing shock materials are in it for indoor silence.
⑤ PILLAR TRIM : Calling name of pillar, because of being in the middle of between door-part and pillar, it let the stength increase. Pillar between front window and side window is front pillar. pillar in the middle of front and rear door is called center pillar or side pillar, briefly calling A, B, C pillar.

(2) Absorbing-Sound part

Applied by heat the process of banking coats and is formed into a damping layer of uniform thickness that follows the body's contour and shape.
⑥ INSULATOR DASH : placed between engine-room and car inner, it keep the noise and vibration, heat etc. from penestrating into a car-inner.
⑦ INSULATOR HOOD : calling name of the relief printing which can be opened and closed on forehead engine part, sticking below it, keep out pass-by noise made in engine-room.

(3) TRUNK TRIM

This part make a place to load passanger's luggage
⑧ SPARE WHEEL COVER : to separate from inner trunk, covering with spare tire in trunk.
⑨ LUGGAGE TRIM : to secure a space with seperating car-body from trunk.
⑩ LUGGAGE BOWL : mostly sticking on RV, MPV kinds of car, to put any goods away in here with ease instead of spare tire.

Concept

It is the unit for assembling of automobile part. make organically related engineering and finally assemble the parts in car manufacturing line not to stick patial goods on car-body in process. to share the tasks between car maker and part supplier is a distinctive characteristic of module. as a result, resolutely transfered the tasks of car maker to part supplier, as the car maker smaller, can save the cost and weight reduction by efficient management and keeping up with the trend of customs. besides, only if the module is realized perfectly, maker can reduce the number of parts as compared with the past process maker has all of manufacturing task from design to production in. as part supplier can concetrate on special part under the support of module company, strengthen the competitiveness by specialization.

Purpose

In the end of last year, internation car-manufacturing equipment capacity was able to produce 80 million cars a year, but only sold 50 million cars. like this, under unfavorable conditions, the key to survive in this situation is to reduce cost and improve the working ration through the sales promotion. and in the 1990's, structural adjustment was peformed on a large scale by way of precaution against stagnation ,and cartel, transfer, affiliation has been in progress. also hereupon begin to inspect the module in full activity for cost reduction and qualilty development. now, Module for Car is divided into driver's seat and front-rear-wheel sash, door, front end, headline, oil-tank, seat, engine, etc. the merit and complement are as follows.

(1) Merits
The cost of management and manufacturing can be reduced by decrease of first supplier. in process, in case of simple module transfered from car maker to part supplier, assembling cost is the wage differentials between car maker and part supplier. but if process is improved by module about part unification, material transfer, changes of consruction, can reduce the cost sharply. The first part supplier giving module can make the betterment of technical investment and quality, specialization by means of larger size. management problem occured by many kinds of car and various problems such as management and investment can be solved easily with part supplier.

(2) Compliments
Personal structural adjustment is required according to reduce and expand, transfer. The situation of part supplier will be changed. First supplier which supply sub assembly enter into direct business with a automobile company. Part supplier for this SUB ASSEMBLY be subject to first supplier. module process is in need of changes for part or design, require investment accompanied by changes of existing assembly LINE. Module development begin with design step. require standard of module part. it is not fit to be a system of interrelated enterprises and low-volume production.

Going ahead with Module of automobile company

The best positive company about module introduction in JAPAN automobile company is NISSAN. The company succeed in getting out of the worst management crises under the president, Karrogance, dispatched from Renault Samsung Motor in France. operating profit, actual results in automobile part, is ¥ 690 billion. It shows an increase of 1.9 percent over last year. In case of reccurent profit, from being ¥ 1.6 billion in the red in 1999, switch to ¥ 282.3 into the blank in 2002. Miraculous recovery at NISSAN depend on such structral adjustment as factory closing, disposal, lower the price, exellent management. Also, the company is promoting this Module project for higher productivity. A new type of module, so called 'set-supply', was introduced into Sky-LINE at Tochiki factory. supply the set of assembly part in need of each line for a specified company. Besides, such automobile company as Toyota, Hu-gi Industry are under investigation of module project for part production. The one, Toyota, is considering whether to make module production-LINE at a field factory in America. The other, Hu-gi Industry, is promoting module of Door assembly.

Domestic Module

Hyundae-mobis has gone ahead with module lately. Since last 1999, the company has supplied module part for Hyundae and KIA Motors and has manufactured Sash Module which is composed of such a frame as axle and suspension and sub-frame and so on , and such a driver's seat as dashboard, audio and air-conditioning and ventilator and air-bag etc.