In the past, automotive OEMs and suppliers were able to build their manufacturing plants on dedicated product lines or platforms. Today, there are far more products in the market, with rapidly fluctuations demands for each. Hence, today the major business challenge is addressing the shortened product launch time, amidst constant market pressures to lower the price and reach newer geographies. An automotive product manufacturer must concurrently collaborate with suppliers for the manufacturing engineering and research involved at every stage of the product development cycle.

With the key business driver being customer delight and cost reduction, the automotive industry is working towards producing any product in any plant anywhere in the world, so as to ensure the re-use of all plant assets and to quickly adapt systems and processes to product/ variant change.

If you are an automotive OEM product manufacturer or a Tier I-II vendor, or for that context in any discrete manufacturing process within the supply chain of auto ecosystem, Axcend rich experience in executing several projects in the discrete manufacturing space can assist in your operations excellence journey.

Axcend has executed projects in all key manufacturing operation areas like:

• Modeling & Simulation – Process Modeling, Factory Flow Analysis
• Maintenance Management Systems/OEE & Downtime Analysis
• Production Planning & Scheduling
• Tracking, Genealogy and Identification Systems

With its deep domain expertise in the automotive industry and its focus on Manufacturing IT, Axcend caters to all aspects of the manufacturing process – from digital manufacturing to operations and production management. Axcend’s consultative approach helps you in pinpointing your pain areas in tracking, genealogy and operational efficiency and helps derive KPIs for process improvements.

• Digital Manufacturing
• Industrial Automation
• Manufacturing Operations Management
• Manufacturing Intelligence