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Auto Suppliers in Financial Squeeze as Automakers Demand Deep Cost Cuts, Local Production

March 6, 2015

Automotive suppliers are under mounting pressure to satisfy two conflicting customer demands: to cut costs and to open more factories in fast-growing emerging markets so that they can be closer to their customers' production plants. Striking the right balance between cost and proximity in global manufacturing networks will be one of the industry's greatest challenges, according to a report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), conducted in partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA. The report is titled The Proximity Paradox: Balancing Auto Suppliers' Manufacturing Networks.

Automakers Are Bound to Design, Build and Sell Anywhere

February 18, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

Analyst Insight: Car ownership in developing economies is on the rise. By 2020, annual world vehicle production could reach 85 to 90 million units. That will mean another 75 to 100 plants, each producing around 300,000 cars a year, will be needed, essentially in or close to the world's fastest-developing countries. Automakers have to create new global production strategies to serve these multiple diverse markets. – Pierfrancesco Manenti, Vice President, Research, SCM World

Russia's Light-Vehicle Market Takes a Major Hit

February 17, 2015

IHS Automotive

The Russian light-vehicle market suffered a highly accelerated decline in sales in January 2015 due to the ongoing macroeconomic stress the market is facing, recording a 24.4 percent year-on-year decline to 115,390 units, according to the latest data released by the Association of European Businesses.

How Long Will It Be Before the Entire Car Can Be 3D-Printed?

February 9, 2015

EBN

Efficient supply chains can be identified by a handful of components: proximity, flexibility and minimal waste. Now, the automotive industry is hoping to capture some of these same benefits through the use of 3D printing.

Via the Internet of Things, Automotive Industry Presents the Connected Car

February 9, 2015

EE Times

The Internet of Things (IoT) is currently the big thing in technology, and the automotive version of the IoT is the Connected Car.

Auto Sales Expected to Continue Unbroken Recovery Since Worst of Economic Recession

February 4, 2015

IHS Automotive

With 2015 off to a good start, IHS Automotive forecasts global automotive sales for 2015 to reach 88.6 million, an increase of 2.4 percent over 2014, continuing an unbroken five-year run of sales recovery and growth from the low point set in the depth of the Great Recession in 2009. However, a slowdown is being signaled with just two of the high-potential BRIC markets likely to see increased sales this year.

Automobile Market Sees Good Growth in Europe, Though Mostly in Western Countries

January 20, 2015

IHS Automotive

Passenger car demand in the European Union rose for the first time in six years during 2014, according to the latest data published by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA). Registrations during the year grew by 5.7 percent year on year (y/y) to 12.55 million units. December was also the 16th month in succession of gains, with registrations having grown during the month by 4.7 percent y/y to 951,329 units.

Penske Logistics Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn Adverse Ruling Over Truck Driver Rules

January 9, 2015

Penske Logistics

Penske Logistics has filed a petition seeking to have the United States Supreme Court review the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the matter of Dilts et al. v. Penske Logistics LLC and Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P.

Toyota Grants Royalty-Free Use of Thousands of Fuel Cell Technology Patents

January 9, 2015

Mashable

Toyota has rocked the auto industry by announcing that it is opening to the public 5,680 of its patents related to fuel cell technology for royalty-free use.

Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, BMW Continue to Dominate Automotive ADAS Market

January 9, 2015

ABI Research

According to ABI Research, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and BMW are still the top three players in the consumer advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) market. They outperform competitors either in terms of the degree and significance of their innovation, or in how effectively they make their systems available to consumers – sometimes in both.