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Automotive manufacturing software helps OEMs and Tier suppliers manage production operations, quality, traceability, material flow, sequencing, asset performance, and plant efficiency. By connecting manufacturing systems, equipment, and supply chains, manufacturers gain real-time visibility that improves production performance, quality, and operational agility.

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Traceability is critical because every vehicle contains thousands of components sourced from multiple suppliers. Manufacturers must maintain complete genealogy and production records to support quality management, regulatory compliance, warranty investigations, recall management, and product safety initiatives. Automotive manufacturers increasingly rely on digital traceability systems to track components, assemblies, and finished vehicles throughout production.

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An Automotive MES is a manufacturing execution system designed to manage production operations, quality processes, work instructions, genealogy, labor tracking, production performance, and manufacturing workflows. Automotive MES solutions provide real-time visibility into production and help manufacturers improve throughput, quality, and operational efficiency across assembly and fabrication operations.

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MES improves automotive operations by standardizing production processes, enforcing quality procedures, providing real-time visibility into manufacturing performance, tracking work-in-process (WIP), and supporting genealogy and traceability requirements. Manufacturers use MES to improve first-time quality, reduce downtime, and increase throughput while supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

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Build-to-sequence manufacturing ensures that parts, materials, and assemblies arrive at the production line in the exact sequence required for vehicle assembly. This supports lean manufacturing, reduces inventory, improves production flow, and enables high-mix vehicle production while maintaining quality and efficiency.

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Tracker helps automotive manufacturers manage order execution, routing, sequencing, inventory control, genealogy, and traceability in real time. The solution supports build-to-order and build-to-sequence manufacturing environments while helping manufacturers reduce warranty exposure, improve throughput, and maintain production schedule adherence.

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Manufacturers improve quality by combining real-time production monitoring, standardized work instructions, process control, traceability, genealogy tracking, and advanced analytics. By identifying potential defects earlier and linking quality data to production events, companies can reduce recalls, improve first-pass quality, and strengthen compliance with automotive quality standards.

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Automotive genealogy software creates a digital production history for every component, assembly, and finished product. It tracks where materials originated, how products were manufactured, and what processes were performed, helping manufacturers support quality investigations, warranty claims, audits, and traceability requirements.

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Improving OEE requires visibility into equipment availability, performance, and quality losses. Real-time production monitoring, downtime analysis, bottleneck identification, and predictive analytics help manufacturers maximize utilization and continuously improve production performance. Automotive manufacturers have successfully used these capabilities to increase capacity and improve plant efficiency.

","title":"How can automotive manufacturers improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)? "},{"body":"

Kepware connects robots, PLCs, assembly systems, conveyors, quality systems, machine tools, and enterprise applications to create a trusted industrial data foundation. This allows manufacturers to standardize connectivity across production environments and support digital transformation, analytics, and AI initiatives.

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ThingWorx helps manufacturers connect machines, systems, workers, and operational data to create a unified operational intelligence platform. Automotive companies use ThingWorx to gain real-time production visibility, improve asset monitoring, support connected worker initiatives, and scale industrial AI across multiple plants.

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Reducing unplanned downtime starts with real-time visibility into equipment performance, production conditions, and asset health. Connected operational intelligence and predictive analytics help maintenance and operations teams identify issues earlier, improve response times, and proactively prevent equipment failures.

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CIMPLICITY provides HMI/SCADA capabilities that enable manufacturers to monitor, control, and visualize highly automated production environments. Automotive plants use CIMPLICITY to improve operational awareness, support complex assembly processes, and increase production uptime.

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Automotive manufacturers must rapidly introduce new vehicle programs, including electric vehicles, while maintaining production efficiency. Digital manufacturing solutions support new product introductions (NPI), production standardization, process flexibility, quality management, and supply chain coordination required for successful EV manufacturing and model launches.

","title":"How can automotive manufacturers support EV production and new product launches? "},{"body":"

Industrial AI enables manufacturers to move from reactive operations to predictive and prescriptive decision-making. By analyzing production, quality, and asset data, AI can help identify emerging issues, recommend corrective actions, improve productivity, and optimize manufacturing performance across plants and production lines.

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Supply chain visibility improves when production, inventory, sequencing, supplier, and material tracking systems are connected into a unified operational view. Manufacturers gain greater insight into part availability, routing, inventory levels, and production schedules, helping reduce disruptions and improve responsiveness.

","title":"How can automotive manufacturers improve supply chain visibility? "},{"body":"

Manufacturing analytics provide real-time visibility into production performance, quality trends, equipment health, bottlenecks, throughput, and operational KPIs. These insights help manufacturers make faster decisions, improve plant performance, increase capacity, and reduce operating costs.

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Velotic brings together Proficy, Kepware, ThingWorx, Tracker, CIMPLICITY, and advanced analytics into a connected industrial software portfolio designed to optimize automotive manufacturing operations. The portfolio supports automotive OEMs and suppliers with capabilities for build-to-sequence manufacturing, genealogy, traceability, production execution, supply chain visibility, quality management, and AI-driven operational intelligence. Automotive manufacturers worldwide use these solutions to improve throughput, quality, uptime, and production flexibility.

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