Word: scania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Volkswagen late last week suddenly gained a potent new rival. In a surprise move, Sweden's two automakers-Volvo and Saab-Scania-announced their decision to unite in a new company, to be called Volvo-Saab-Scania. By any measure, the triple-hyphenated outfit will be a giant: with sales of $5.8 billion, it will rank as Europe's fourth largest automaker (after Daimler-Benz, Renault and Volkswagen), turn out a line of vehicles ranging from compacts to huge Scania rigs, and employ nearly 104,000 workers...
...choice had seemed likely since January, when the U.S. Air Force ordered 650 F-16s for its own fleet. The fighter handles better than its chief competitors, the Swedish Viggen, built by Saab-Scania, and the Mirage F1-M53, built by the French firm Dassault-Breguet. The F-16 also appealed to the consortium because of the savings that would result from standardizing planes of U.S. and NATO forces...
Pressures and Intrigue. Initially, five planes were competing for the consortium's order. They were SEPECAT's (a British-French joint company) Jaguar, Saab-Scania's Viggen from Sweden, France's Mirage F1/M53 made by Dassault-Brequet, and two U.S. products: General Dynamics' single-engine YF-16 and Northrop's twin-engine YF-17, nicknamed the Cobra...
...some areas Volvo and Saab-Scania are using a team-production method, in which auto and truck components are assembled by semi-autonomous groups of four to seven workers each. At times they can decide in what order to tackle their tasks and even who their foreman will be. In another method, the men move along the line with the cars performing each successive assembly operation. The automakers are also rotating some assembly-line workers to different jobs. An employee may attach seat headrests one day, bore holes in the seat framework the next, connect back supports and lift seat...