If the strike continues, some auto part manufacturers with plants adjacent to Volkswagen's assembly plant, may begin to face problems as unused parts start to pile up.
I loved the Keith Richards autobiography "Life" — although the "auto" part of that is obviously problematic, since Richards neither wrote, nor, apparently, remembered much of what was in the book.
There are about 72 auto part makers in Puebla that sell components to the German company and many function with a "just in time" delivery system that minimizes buildups of inventory.
Violations of federal auto safety rules are currently punished with a fine of the manufacturer of no more than $925,000, plus a mandatory recall of the defective vehicle, auto part or tire.
Databases store the bits of a company's information, everything from auto part inventory levels to personnel records.
With Goodyear Tire having set up a VEBA for the United Steelworkers, GM's contract with the UAW could spur other auto part suppliers to negotiate similar deals.
Fisker went bankrupt in 2013, but Chinese auto part supplier Wanxiang acquired the assets, installed new leadership and are in the process of relaunching the company as Karma, the name of Fisker's original flagship car.
Of course, the full realization of the "auto" part of the word — in the form of fully autonomous automobiles — is a long way off, but there are nonetheless companies trying to build that future today.
A lot of them are layered with auto part stickers.
Remove cars and auto part imports, for example, and the US deficit with Mexico virtually disappears.
