Super-tuning the expansion
Manufacturers reach for a new level of competitiveness
As imported vehicles start to win more market share in the region and transplants start moving in, South America’s established OEMs must fight back with a new drive. These challenges plus strong currencies and high interest rates mean carmakers must ramp up production efficiency, utilizing better technologies, optimised material sourcing and improved supplier performance. How to achieve this expansion and deal with other challenges will bring delegates together at the 2012 AMS South America conference in Sao Paulo. This forum is where carmakers and major tier suppliers meet domestic and global machinery suppliers and solution providers discuss how to make further advances across the automotive manufacturing spectrum, including: - finding the model for established OEMs to respond to the threat from incoming products and plants
- how best to leverage global production systems to lift productivity and quality
- balancing automation and labour levels in the face of increasing union and legislative constraints
- what can OEMs learn from the carmaking models of the other BRIC regions
Last year’s conference (reported here) showed that while individual plant flexibility would be the key to delivering the volumes required by the growing market, plants would also need the flexibility to quickly switch model output to produce the right vehicles in the right place. According to keynote speakers at the event, the key to sustained growth across South America’s automotive sector is increased efficiency from OEMs and Tier suppliers. | | 
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The conference will discuss how efficiency will come from deliverables like better equipment, new and improved plants, cleaner and greener manufacturing systems, careful balancing of automation and skilled labour, modernised management, and more.READ 2011 CONFERENCE REPORT
Attendees will benefit from:
| 1) Networking Opportunities Careful scheduling allows interaction between
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2) Learning
| A unique and high-level gathering of senior executives
and analysts provides: - formal speaker presentations
- Q&A discussion sessions
- break-out workshops
- downloads of the speaker presentations after the conference.
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3) Business and Social environment
| We recognise the all-important personal dimension to any business relationship, so the event provides various opportunities to interact on a more personal level: You can meet and greet familiar and unfamiliar faces in the coffee breaks, and then continue your discussions at the mid-conference gala ginner, in a more relaxed, informal environment. | | 
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