A few weeks ago, the boss of Forvia, the company born from the merger of the French automotive supplier Faurecia and the German Hella, gave some clues on the technological transformation and the savings to be urgently implemented in the coming years. to stay in the race.
Patrick Koller indicated in December that his group would halve its research & development and production costs by 2028 thanks in particular to generative artificial intelligence (AI).
He created astonishment by mentioning the creation of five “dark plants”, factories without operators, open by 2025, and around a hundred “4.0 factories” – the level of automation just below “
dark plants
” – during the same period.
One of the ways to cope with the cost increases that the automobile industry is facing in Europe, whether in terms of electrification, electronics, software, decarbonization as well as Asian competition.
In light of the vast…
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