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MVI Group and Fraunhofer IAO draw up study into optimisation potential in the field of automobile product development
Wide-ranging study with exclusive expert interviews set for October 2003 market launch
 
27.08.2003, MUNICH
Pressures on costs and deadlines, a growing diversity of vehicle models as well as rising organisational and technical complexity characterise product development within the automobile industry. Limited time and capital resources for each vehicle project exert tremendous strains on cross-company development processes, which need to be structured significantly more efficiently.
Against this backdrop, PROMIND, a company of the MVI Group, joined forces with the distinguished Stuttgart-based Fraunhofer Institut IAO to produce a joint study. The aim of this study is to identify the areas where day-to-day weaknesses lie in the collaborative product development activities of automobile manufacturers and suppliers. The study is designed to quantify the potential for improvements and to show how this potential can be mobilised for greater efficiency in the field of automotive product development.
Within the framework of the study, 40 wide-ranging and exclusive interviews were conducted with experts from the automobile industry. Furthermore, the study drew upon information provided by a further 100 companies from the automotive sector. The experts in the interviews are executive board members, managing directors, departmental and development managers as well as project managers.
The study, which is about 200 pages long, is set to be published after the International Motor Show (IAA) Automobile at the beginning of October 2003. Advance orders for the German-language study can already be placed online under www.30-Prozent-Studie.de.
 
Contact Rainer Kurek, Director
 
Telephone +49 / 89 / 61 46 97 - 41
Telefax +49 / 89 / 61 46 97 - 39
E-Mail presse@mvi-group.com
 MVI Group GmbH
 
Candidplatz 11
D - 81543 München
 

 
About the MVI Group
 
The MVI Group is an internationally-active group of companies with over 1,000 employees around the world. Its primary sector focus is the automobile industry. The MVI Group offers a broad spectrum of highly-qualified and complementary services for the international automotive industry. As an independent partner, the MVI Group designs, directs and realises complex vehicle development projects for its clients along the entire process chain, including vehicle trials. The companies within the Group offer know-how and services in the field of project and process management, as well as consultancy services in the field of technology and methodology support. In addition, it also offers extensive services along the automotive development process chain, starting with design*), construction*) and simulation and extending to factory and production planning, overall vehicle trials and homologation. Because qualified employees play an increasingly central role, the MVI Group also offers a broad spectrum of support and consulting services in the field of human capital services. All the companies within the MVI Group operate in the market as independent profit centres. They are centrally managed and co-ordinated in order to make maximum use of synergy effects. – Further information available under: www.mvi-group.com

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