The average time spent by four car manufacturers is illustrated to produce vehicles at their US factories from 1998 to 2005 is illustrated.
Overall, all 4 car producers saw a decrease in vehicle production time the number of hours to produce General Motor and Ford fell more significantly than the amount of time of Toyota and Honda production Furthermore, it can clearly be seen that General Motor manufacturer had taken the most time to produce vehicles
In 1998, General Motor ranked the first place with 32 hours of producing vehicles, 4 hours higher than Ford. Meanwhile, the number of hours that vehicles were produced in Toyota and Honda factories were both at 22 hours. From 1998 to 2001, a period of time when employees in General Motor manufactured vehicles, plunged dramatically by 5. In contrast, Ford customers’ demand made the number of hours shot up considerably by 3 and reached a peak at 31 hours. Besides that, the average time of Toyota to produce vehicles fluctuated around 23 hours while the figure of Honda fell rapidly after 1 year and then rose gradually between 1999 and 2001.
After 2001, the amount of time spent on producing vehicles in Toyota and Honda both hit a peak at 24 hours in 2002 and dropped by 4 in 2005. Similarly, the number of hours of vehicle production in General Motor and Ford plummeted at a respective of 21 hours and 22 hours.