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Automotive Manufacturing Business-Aligned IT Strategy
- Learn about the ecosystem factors that are impacting the Automotive industry and how your IT team is set from a PESTLE and SWOT perspective, with expert insights and takeaways to update your IT strategy.
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Automotive Manufacturing IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
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Automotive Manufacturing Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
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Automotive Manufacturing Skills Gap Trend Report
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- Employers need skilled workers who can learn and adapt with technology. Learn about how skill gap affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Automotive Manufacturing Supply Chain Trend Report
- Automotive manufacturing supply chains are global in nature and always evolving. There are advantages in understanding where opportunities exists for both product expansion and efficiencies in supply chain delivery.
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Automotive Manufacturing Digital Transformation Trend Report
- Technologies supporting and enabling automotive manufacturing are maturing at a rapid pace.
- The list is long - Industry 4.0, IT/OT convergence, AI, and RPA are just a few examples. These technologies bring opportunities and challenges to automotive manufacturing.
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Automotive Manufacturing IT Staffing Benchmarking Report
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Automotive Manufacturing IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
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Automotive Manufacturing Quality Management Software (QMS) Technology Report
- Automotive quality is an intricate system controlled by well developed processes including ISO-9001, TS 16949. These complex processes require systematic record keeping and tracking including auditability.
- Learn about what QMS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
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Automotive Manufacturing Learning Management Software (LMS) Technology Report
- Automotive manufacturing, like many manufacturing industries, is facing a skills gap. Advancing technologies, an aging workforce, and the perception that blue collar jobs are not desirable all exacerbate this.
- Learn about what LMS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
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Automotive Manufacturing Generative Design Technology Report
- CAD is widely accepted and utilized technology in the automotive manufacturing. Generative design is revolutionizing product design enabling artificial intelligence (AI) to take an active role in designing and optimizing products.
- Learn about what Generative Design is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Latest Automotive Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in (supply) chains”: The logistics blockchain
Date published
October 19, 2021
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Retailers and international shippers are already using blockchain technology to track their supply chains. In using a decentralized network to verify digital transactions, shippers can be reasonably sure that the products they deliver to customers are what they say they are, and that they can trace issues (like spoilage) right back to their sources very quickly.
Autonomous Motor Vehicles Are Inevitable
Date published
May 18, 2021
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Full automation of motor vehicles is going to happen but not without future development in vehicular artificial intelligence and the hard-to-win trust of the human operators.
Emotion AI Critical to the Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Date published
May 18, 2021
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Emotion AI adds the quintessential human nature of empathy and motive into the algorithm, creating a more holistic and balanced AI approach to automating motor vehicles.
Design, Ethics, and AI in the Automotive Industry
Date published
May 18, 2021
Author:
The autonomous transportation industry is projected to see the biggest shift in the auto and trucking industry since the introduction of an automatic transmission. This note looks at the challenges and approaches software developers and designers must consider from an ethical perspective.
Manufacturing: Advice From the COVID-19 Roundtable
Date published
April 9, 2020
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On March 24, 2020, Info-Tech’s industry practice hosted a Manufacturing Industry Roundtable with the specific focus of identifying the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having in the industry. This is a summary of the roundtable discussions around three key issues.
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