
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Global automakers will cumulatively lose $110 billion as a result of a worldwide shortage of integrated circuits. Auto manufacturing has evolved into a global, just-in-time enterprise with extended and complex supply chains. Very vulnerable to external shocks. Covid 19 was the biggest shock imaginable, and now automakers are struggling to source critical components at a time when demand is roaring back post pandemic. Could this issue have been avoided? Jim Anderton thinks so and explains one way how.
Access all episodes of End of the Line on engineering.com TV along with all of our other series.
Global automakers will cumulatively lose $110 billion as a result of a worldwide shortage of integrated circuits. Auto manufacturing has evolved into a global, just-in-time enterprise with extended and complex supply chains. Very vulnerable to external shocks. Covid 19 was the biggest shock imaginable, and now automakers are struggling to source critical components at a time when demand is roaring back post pandemic. Could this issue have been avoided? Jim Anderton thinks so and explains one way how.
Access all episodes of End of the Line on engineering.com TV along with all of our other series.