2024年5月11日发(作者：)

Middleware solutions for the automotive industry

Executive brief

Innovate automotive design, production and supply

chain to get to market quickly and reach new markets.

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Innovate automotive design, production and supply chain to get to market quickly and reach new markets.

Contents

2 Executive summary

2 Manage across an increasingly

complex supply chain to meet

customer demands

3 Establish an on demand operat-

ing environment to integrate

resources and manage design

and production

4 Leverage information across your

business to facilitate revenue-

generating initiatives

4 Manage design, development and

manufacturing processes to enable

you to get to market quickly

5 Integrate supply chain through

aftermarket to drive quality and

help comply with regulations

5 IBM provides solutions for

automotive manufacturers

and suppliers

8 For more information

Executive summary

At the same time that automotive companies like yours face the pressure to meet

customer demands with rapid, regular improvements, a number of challenges stand

in the way. Supplier integration and collaboration complexity increases. Retail and

aftermarket costs rise. The costs and demands of global regulations increase.

An on demand operating environment can help you address these challenges. By

leveraging information across your business, you can optimize business processes, and

identify and implement new revenue-generating initiatives. Tools that help you manage

design and production processes also enable you to get to market rapidly. And when

you integrate your supplier community—from requirements definition through design

and development to aftermarket—you can drive innovation, satisfying both needs for

high quality and regulatory compliance.

Leveraging IBM’s extensive experience with leading automotive companies, IBM

Middleware Solutions for Automotive help you manage today’s industry challenges and

support the development of your on demand business. This executive brief introduces

these middleware solutions and highlights how IBM can help your automotive company:

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Optimize design, development and manufacturing within your enterprise and with

your suppliers.

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Drive customer satisfaction and loyalty through dealers.

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Minimize both costs and the complexity of business management.

Manage across an increasingly complex supply chain to meet customer demands

Every year, automotive manufacturers need to create new models to meet increasing

customer demands. Car architectures increase in complexity to meet customer

demands. That means that in addition to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs),

mechanical and electronic system and component suppliers must design and produce

at an accelerating pace. And do so without sacrificing quality or cost—to gain today’s

customer loyalty.

Consequently, automotive companies are changing the ways they work together to

create designs, build products and efficiently integrate mechanical and electronic

design. Computer simulations are used rather than physical models to test safety,

efficiency and performance. By using digital design and simulation software, automotive

design cycles can be reduced from 72 months to as short as 18 months with a lower

cost structure.

Faced with highly demanding consumers and compressed development cycles,

establishing reliability throughout the global supply chain is crucial. Every automotive

company must get the required assembly, part or material necessary in time to meet

demands. Manufacturers who establish high-quality design, development and produc-

tion processes help avoid costly repairs and recalls that can plague competitors.