What Challenges will Automotive Industry Face in the future?

Hi all,

        Long long time ago, sometime ago !! we studied a statement in social studies in school. They are called Basic Needs. They are 3 basically, and can be different , for one to one , but speaking here market wise ...  food , clothing , and health. These times in growing urban , we still see that , Food -> restaurants , Hotels , Dhabas are not hit to going bankrupt ... am i right in saying that ? well then clothing -> people are still buying clothes for festivals , birthdays , interview wise one new shirt or a good one for 5 to 6 interviews once... , and health ... though we visit doctors regularly or not , we do pay for family health issues , hospitals , tablets , and medical groceries .... and no wonder in times like H1N1 Virus ( Dont call it Swine Flu , calls CNN ) , so all the basic things are moving in daily life they are part and parcel of daily life ..... Ok ! Enough now what with Automobile Industry :

well then its here : If we observe one thing in above 3 fields , we didnot speak about 5 star hotels , we didnot speak about GUCCI Versace and costly brands , and we didnot defnitely speak about the hospital services where one has to pay 10K rs for 1kg of fat removal , but definitely i was mentioning to BASIC purpose of these things which refer to their services. So even in Auto Industry , having a good safety system is useful than having a SONY system. Good music is good to hear , but now a days after Radio Mirchi and all not atleast 30% will listen to their favourite music in CDs. Sad for highways we dont have yet a radio channel , covering the traffic and blockage information , well we dont have so much on highways , thats agreed . So like this if we make a matrix of Value(Cost) against Use ( Purpose ) , we can do a justified design of low cost fully functional and useful vehicle.

My formula for this is Solution_for_challenge = F(Use, Purpose, Market(asia, india, africa))

So challenges :

Industry will have to find new solutions in reduction of costs ( does not mean sell a body of aluminium on a four bar mechanism).

The product has to be more flexible in terms of upgradation -> After one year , i want my vehicle to take new shape in terms of drivability on good side , effeciency , fuel consumption . what does this mean to company -> Approved Quality. So standing with these quality measures hits back on development costs and time -> any false idea will cost , so needs to have  a good R & D without politics inside. -> Challenge the major.

Collabration between Indigenios companies , 'OUR AUTO' mobile companies can run good , if TATA , Mahindra , Maruti will have their electronic , design and development teams with different fields where each one is a master in their own. Like BMW , buys things for ECU only from Bosch and Siemens, Continental ( after it purchased siemens) and so do many german auto OEMs. As they did it we are buying it again from BOSCH -> TATA , Bosch -> Siemens , so and so would not be possible for DENSO , if not for toyota ... so let survive , let survive will kick a balance and this is the target the another Challenge.

Largest challenges facing the auto manufacturing industry is to produce vehicles which are lightweight (use of higher strength steels, Aluminium, magnesium and titanium), fuel efficient (Hybrid tehnology), cheap and desirable (multitude of choice).The business model which is based mostly on volume is sound if you can produce cars for the third world consumers, however the first world countries are spoiled for choice - thus lower the number of models and derivatives on the market - limit choice, reduce cost on tooling and manufacturing.Automation of manufacturing has to increase even more.

ROLLING  FRICTION  ADVANTAGES

VEHICLE___KMPL_RF___FUEL_NET__KMPL_ TON -  .

.___________X___ADV_.ADV__ADV__3X____KMPL  .

CAR 2T           12.5    3.66      3        11        137        275

TRUCK 20T     5        3.66      3        11         55         1100

RAIL 1000T    0.19    2.86      3        8.58    1.63       1630

SHIP 1000T    0.31    2.00      3        6          1.86       1860

Shifting from Monopolistic market and third world deliverance to customer satisfaction first orientation appears the biggest challenge.Thus even when problems are pointed out there is marked reluctance to first admit or investigate and then correct untill pressurised to act.

Ultimately it is desirable generally by a common man that one is interested in:                                                                                                   "To Travel With the Least Cost - Within The Least Time - With Max. Comfort." 

• Trends in the whole industry (country and world basis),

• Trends in environment (petrol, inflation, exchange rates, credits rate..),

• Customer demands connected with level of warehouses (flow of ware),

• Internal company issues (management of prices, costs, processes).

• Other external factors (i.a. design issues, sales network, ..).