Car IT, driver assistance, telematics and infotainment
Automotive industry
To keep one step ahead in a competitive environment, car manufacturers and automotive industry suppliers must always keep their know-how one step ahead of other producers. Alongside traditional values such as safety and quality, new developments like infotainment and electric mobility are becoming ever more important for the end-customer. Investments in employee education are therefore all the more important so that they can meet these new challenges head on.
The focus for car manufacturers and component suppliers
Lightweight construction instead of steel
- The electric cars of the future achieve a greater range the lighter they are
- Lightweight construction techniques with carbon fibre and synthetic materials require completely new technologies
- Employees require completely new technological skills
From car manufacturer to „mobility service provider”
- Car sharing in combination with public transport is in growing demand
- Increasing environmental awareness and a change in our society’s values requires new concepts
- The car is losing its importance as a status symbol
- Change means a shift in culture for employees
- In future the car will become a “travelling device”
- Route optimisation and avoiding traffic jams through communication with other cars and the environment
- The prognosis is for more autonomous driving
- IT know-how is becoming more and more important
Production without schedules and production lines
- 3D visualisation and working hand-in-hand with robots is the future of production
- Predictive process control recognises source of errors and finds solutions itself
- The planning of manufacturing and logistics processes and their control merge together
The electric car
- 1 million electric cars by 2020: that’s the aim of the Federal Government in Germany for example
- E-mobility is quiet, environmentally friendly and protects scarce resources
- The current challenges are: too expensive, limited range and long charging times
- Building know-how, electric technologies and performance support
The range of models keeps growing….
- Important generational change in the larger segments (from internal combustion engine to electric cars)
- New models for new niche segments: high performance sports cars, airy soft-tops and many SUV’s
- Permanent product training for ever shorter product cycles
Our automotive training topics
IMC has worked for nearly 20 years with customers in the automotive sector. During this time we have gained comprehensive knowledge in the sector and developed to the benefit of our customers. A wide offering of training measures is the result: it makes the necessary growth in knowledge for employees possible and their on-site training support.
We assist you with comprehensive expertise, sector knowledge and a pioneering spirit amongst other things with the following topics:
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Product training
Electronic technologies, lightweight construction & IT. Thousands of employees world-wide must be comprehensively trained.
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Cultural change
Decision makers and management must be made fit for the changes ahead so that they themselves become the agents for change. New roles and functions will be created. The people who occupy these roles need a new mind-set (for example service customer orientation)
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Project management
The automotive sector is one of the most project intensive sectors with high levels of product complexity and variety. Quality standards, costs and deadlines must be adhered to.
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Quality management
Quality management audits are one of the central instruments for the long-term safeguarding of added value in the automotive sector – whether internally or with suppliers, whether as a system audit in accordance with ISO/TS 16949:2009 or IATF 16949:2016 or as a process audit in accordance with VDA 6.3. Training for further, central methods such as forward quality planning in accordance with APQP or the initial sample check in accordance with PPAP support day-to-day work in the automotive industry.
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Process and supplier audits
Process and supplier audits aid the choice and evaluation of new or existing suppliers. At the same time supplier audits serve the targeted development of suppliers and help to improve understanding and cooperation at the interface between customers and suppliers.
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Legal questions
Training is available on the ever more complex topics of contract agreements, general terms and conditions, liability for default on delivery, quality assurance agreements, claims for defects, warranties, guarantees, product liability, tool agreements, confidentiality agreements, international delivery relationships, foreign law, UN purchase rights, insurances, compliance, anti-trust law etc.
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Performance support
Performance support and on-the-job training make sense in a number of places: for the customer relating to the differing types of car with car sharing, with dealer service training in the workshop etc.
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Dealer performance in sales and service
Car dealers also need comprehensive training in order to be able to sell new models. In addition, services in maintenance and repairs with new technologies must be supported with performance support
Impressions
What the experts say about sector trends
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