Automotive Sector, Assembly Plants and Productive Articulation in Cd-Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico – El Paso, Texas, U.S.A., Business Intervention Consequences and Challenges
Summary- This article is the second of the field research carried out during 2015, in the automotive sector of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. In this locality in the North of the Country, On the border with El Paso, Texas, it is one of the most economically driven and job-generating sectors in the State. The main objective of the work is to establish the characteristics of productive articulation between assembly plants in the automotive sector, the educative and government sector, as well as the coordination and relations that the supplier Plants at Level 1 (Tier1), which they maintain with the general offices in the countries of origin as well as their subsidiaries in various parts of the World. Despite the complexity of the characteristics of this inquest for confidentiality and security issues, by the background already known that affected Cd. Juárez in previous years, it was difficult to conclude interviews with the general managers, Responsible for human resources or in charge of production of automotive suppliers, however it was possible to conduct interviews with nine companies, 7 at level One (Tier1), and 2 at level Two (Tier2), as well as a responsible for industrial and competitive policies in the State of Chihuahua. The results allow to define the general situation that presents the automotive Sector through some of the most important assembly plants that operate in the area of Cd. Juarez-El Paso, Tx., however it is necessary to insist on obtaining information from a greater number of Companies that have an important participation of supply at national level with international impact for the implementation of greater coordination and integration among the diverse actors involved in the sector, which will allow to establish guidelines of Action and collaboration of each one of them and to provide economic projection with significant impact on the living conditions of the collaborators and consequently their families.
