[photopress:logistics_Bosch.jpg,full,alignright]Bosch Group has started construction of a $6.31 million logistic center in Changsha, the capital city of Hunan Province, to optimize its logistics efficiency in central China.
The new center is built on a 10,000-square-meter site with an expanded automotive logistic network. When it is completed towards the end of this year, it will coordinate all automotive products to and from the Changsha site, including on-time delivery of production materials.
Bosch (which is the company that invented the spark plug) started operations in Changsha in January, 2005, with a total investment of $89 million up to 2008. Bosch Changsha is the main production facility for electrical drivers, starters and alternators for Bosch, arguably the world’s leading car part maker, in China.
The site offers a full range of mechatronic components and body applications systems for the entire automotive industry in China including motors for ABS and engine cooling. (If, like me, you are puzzled by this new word mechtronics the definition given by Wikipedia is: Mechatronics is the combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering. The purpose of this interdisciplinary engineering field is the study of automata from an engineering perspective and serves the purposes of controlling advanced hybrid systems. The word itself is a portmanteau of ‘Mechanics’ and ‘Electronics’.)
My own view entirely. Could not have put it better myself. It was right on the tip of my tongue.
Source: China Daily