To succeed in today’s fast-changing vehicle market, automotive manufacturers need to focus on the technology, design and quality that meet customer needs and enhance experience, and reduce features that add unnecessary processes, cost and time to market. Those manufacturers who add complexity where it adds little value, and don’t scale resources behind the tools and products that give them a competitive edge, will only fall further behind.

To achieve this, OEMs need to reduce silos across vehicle design, R&D and manufacturing planning. Together with key suppliers, they must accelerate the pace of vehicle development and launch, simplify part numbers and vehicle platforms, and ensure the manufacturability of design and technology innovation, whether using new materials and architectures, integrating software advances or adapting to rapid changes in battery cell chemistry and pack designs.

New for 2024, DESIGN4PRODUCTION stands as a pivotal event in the automotive industry.

Bringing together automotive designers and engineers, manufacturing engineers and plant leaders the event will delve into the transformative strategies and advancements shaping the future of vehicle design, development, and production.

Together, Car Design News (CDN), Automotive Manufacturing Solutions (AMS) and Automobil Produktion (AP), will combine forces to provide pivotal insights into opportunities, technologies, skills and challenges as the automotive industry turns to more design for manufacturing (DFM) and design for manufacturing and assembly (DFMA) strategies.