The dynamic wave of automation in auto manufacturing

Automation offers opportunities that can help the auto industry react faster to market requirements, reduce manufacturing downtimes, and improve the efficiency of supply chains and increase productivity. The length of a project remains a prime concern to decide on automating the manufacturing process. Automotive manufacturing used to be driven by volume-based mass production, which has given way to customisation on the shop floor. Connected manufacturing offers the auto sector unique opportunities that would allow diverse stakeholders to realise production-related gains by facilitating new business models and innovative products with greater integration of functions (embedded systems)—which result in increased value addition.