Henry Ford revolutionized car manufacturing through the introduction of the moving conveyor belt. With Kanban and just-in-time Japanese car companies extended the conveyor belt beyond the boundaries of their own factories to their suppliers. During over 100 years of continuous supply chain integration the automotive industry became a highly optimized and well-functioning closed ecosystem of OEMs and their suppliers. This is about to change!
For the first time in its history the industry is looking beyond this ecosystem to reinvent itself by learning from the the IT, telecommunications and consumer electronics industries. The most successful companies of these industries have embraced open source and open collaboration to accelerate product development to better serve their markets.
Join our expert panel with Matt Jones (Jaguar Land Rover), Hisao Munakata (Renesas), Kenichi Murata (Toyota) and Kazuo Tsubouchi (Denso) for a lively discussion on how the "open paradigm" will revolutionize the automotive industry.
