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Is The Automotive Industry Dead

Certain parts of the automotive industry are suffering severe difficulties, that fact cannot be agued. However I havent noticed any automotive manufacturer making cars that will not wear out. I have also noticed that the population of our planet has doubled in my lifetime. Now let us marry these two indisputable facts and see what the market situation truly is. Then well look at who deserves to survive and who will do the industry a favour by going out of business.

First the ever expanding population and cars that wear out a little more each time you start the engine. We are told that our free market society runs on supply and demand so the next question that is to be asked is do people want to own a motor vehicle. The answer is obviously yes because only two or three nations on our planet have acceptable public transport systems to replace the private use of automobiles. Therefore it is safe to assume that the demand for cars has never been higher.

The second point concerns the lifespan of the average automobile and here we can only accept published records concerning the useful life of a car. In general most cars die around the age of 15. There are a few exceptions like cars owned by people that do very low mileage, but in general after the age of 10 much money needs spending on a car to keep it running.

The Automotive Industry Affects Many

The twentieth century produced millions of great inventions. Computers and the Internet are definitely at the top of the list, but so are cars. The whole car industry provides millions and millions of jobs. Not just the assembly plants. When people think about the car industry, that is usually the first thing that comes to mind, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. There is so many other jobs involved and affected by the automotive industry. Not to mention the jobs affected by people in the automotive field, such as the local fast food outlet.

In order to build a car you first need to build the components. But before you can manufacture the components, you need to build the automotive stamping dies that will stamp out the parts. But, even before that, the car and all of the individual parts have to designed.

This chain starts with the heads of the car companies. They decide to build a car. They get a general concept of what they want and pass this information on to their engineers. The engineers design the overall look of the car, then dissect it into smaller parts. Each part then has to be designed and blueprints drawn up. After the blueprints are approved, the heads decide how many of this particular model they want to build.

Jobs In The Modern Automotive Industry

Jobs within the automotive industry are extremely varied. Depending on which element you would like to enter defines what kind of jobs to go for. Put simply there are two major sectors dividing the industry; those who work in the development, manufacture and sale of new cars, and those involved in the after sales garage industries.
Both can be lucrative industries to enter, especially the latter as the majority of people lack any real mechanical knowledge so your skill with an engine is often required by many.
Employment within the car manufacturing industry has a wide scope and is not necessarily defined by engineering qualifications. Sadly the British motor industry had been in decline for some years, most will remember the ghastly scenes outside Rover’s Longbridge plant during its closure in 2005.
It seems to have settled down in recent years with large plants in Ellesmere Port, Southampton and Sunderland still open, producing cars for Vauxhall, Ford and Nissan respectively. These construction jobs will most probably come under threat eventually, as with much of the automotive industry in Britain, cheaper production abroad means companies are less inclined to use the British workforce.
Construction is not the only field available in the motor industry. In terms of creative development, many British applicants have gone on to work for the major car companies to design future models despite production being moved overseas. Added to this, thanks to British universities leading the way in engineering scholarship, the talents of British design engineers are required worldwide.
Their knowledge has helped bring the motor industry forward, creating new technologies and providing expert advice is clearly a niche that British engineers have managed to chisel out in an extremely competitive global market.

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