Through his network, our automotive expert Thomas Flaig has insight into the entire spectrum of the supplier industry: from the major players to highly specialized medium-sized companies. One effect of the corona pandemic, which is currently affecting many companies, is the frequent and long-lasting failures in the supply chain. For some of them, this puts their existence at risk. In this presentation, Thomas Flaig highlights the plan to increase the production efficiency as a countermeasure.

Significant time and cost saving through virtual commissioning

The corona virus has developed from a local epidemic into a global threat within a very short time. The consequences make it clear how vulnerable humans and the economy have become as a result of globalization.

Countermeasures have to be initiated as the direction in which society and especially companies have changed. The Keywords here are deglobalization, digitalization, automation and ecological transformation.

A possible direction correction for manufacturing companies concerns the global supply chains. They are very sensitive and quickly affected by downtimes. In the stress test of recent months, manufacturing companies with a high vertical range of manufacture obviously had an advantage here.

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