Automotive

• Ever increasing complexity of electronic components
• Increasing quality demands from the market
• Diverse manufacturing with minimum stock on hand (JIS / JIT)
• OEM standards and regulations

The requirements for vehicle manufacturers and suppliers are more and more demanding. As well as pressure from strong competition the implications of failure of electronic components within the vehicles which presents a real challenge for companies. Even the smallest fault can result in a costly, extensive and ultimately image-harming recall campaign.

In order to reduce field failures, many vehicle manufacturers today are passing the increasingly more complex development and manufacturing tasks onto suppliers. Furthermore, the OEMs expect complete and precise information and evidence of production and assembly of the supplied components or modules – down to the individual item level.

iTAC solutions for challenges faced by the automotive sector
With the iTAC.MES.Suite, suppliers can more than fulfill the extensive demands of vehicle manufacturers: the use of MES software facilitates a competitive advantage. In future, interruptions in the supply chain, which may result in a production standstill for the vehicle manufacturers, can soon be a thing of the past.

The iTAC.MES.Suite facilitates

• real-time transparency across all complex production processes.
• an improvement in process and product quality.
• optimization of production processes and an increase in efficiency across the entire supply chain.
• preventive measures for failure avoidance and a reduction in field failures.
• fulfillment of OEM standards as well as international and country-specific legislation.

For Customer / Use Case examples, please see

• Preh Case Study
• HBPO Case Study
• Solution: SAP/iTAC active closed-loop traceability