Transportation is being redefined before our very eyes. Never has the pace of change been so fast or the pressure facing automotive manufacturers so high.

Vehicles are evolving into complex, connected computers on wheels, enabled by electronics and software and more strictly regulated by environmental and homologation requirements.

All of this comes at a time when global competition is fierce, and manufacturers must reduce their time to market or risk getting left behind as their competitors forge ahead.

This new era has presented manufacturers with challenges to:

• Modernize plants rapidly with new technologies
• Compress development and launch timelines
• Adjust to production changes quickly

You are already changing the way you approach manufacturing to meet these challenges. However, your changes have significantly increased production complexity which leads to the question:

How can you anticipate production issues before they prevent you from launching successfully and manufacturing profitably?