Word: petersen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ulrich Petersen and Heinrich D. Holland...
...Cambridge police initiated the investigation under the direction of Lt. Edwin Petersen. The state district attorney's office assigned a team of state police led by Lt. George McGarity to cooperate in the effort...
...industry is openly borrowing production ideas from its archrivals, the Japanese. Says Ford President Donald Petersen: "They have a lot of good techniques, and we're starting to feed them all through the system." For example, the Japanese have become skillful at keeping a production line moving without keeping mountains of parts on hand. Ford has now copied some of the Japanese methods to cut its inventory stockpiles. The saving: $90 million a year...
...agreements in the industry has already started. The Carter Administration has proposed that a group of auto, labor and Government leaders meet to discuss the industry's problems. Says Transportation Secretary Goldschmidt: "We value this industry, and we don't intend to let it fail." Ford President Petersen adds: "It's my job to improve our productivity and efficiency as much as we know how. But I'm saying that when it's all done, that's not enough...
Ford may have another way of fighting Asian competition. The auto world last week was buzzing with rumors of a possible deal between that company and Toyota, the only major Japanese producer without any current plans to build cars or trucks in the U.S. After Ford President Donald E. Petersen met in June with Toyota officials, the Japanese press reported that a firm agreement had been reached whereby Toyota would build 20,000 cars a month in an idle Ford plant in the U.S. By week's end, though, both Ford and Toyota strongly denied any such accord...