Smart Automotive Variantcon 2013

The only conference at which you can not only discuss the major challenges and current controversies in the field variant management for automotive industry, but can put your very own problems and challenges centre-stage.

After the successful introduction of the Smart Variant.con 2013, we.CONECT is introducing the Smart Automotive Variantcon 2013 conference, taking place from November 28th until 29th 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

Take advantage of the opportunity to exchange latest ideas and approaches about the Management of mastering Variant Complexity in the Automotive Engineering sector. Meet experts and colleagues from Development, Construction and Product Management departments of leading companies such as Daimler, BMW, Volvo, Ford, Jaguar Land Rover and many more.

• Keynote Speakers

Joy Batchelor

Prof. Dr. Thomas Friedli

Ravindra Dayal

Alexander Wobst

Main Topics of the Smart Automotive Variantcon 2013:

• Combining competitiveness with a diversified product range

• Mastering complexity - How to turn complexity management into competitive advantage

• Moving beyond 'Reduction of Complexity' as the final goal to better understand and control the unreducible complexities

• Consistent variant management as an essential element for successful complexity management

• Differentiation of variant management to other methods of managing complexity

• Optimising the trade-off between the need for standardized and product diversity

• Integration of a consistent variant management into present or new to build product development processes

• Complexity control in a global value chain and coordination of a diversified product range

• Cost-simulation of variants & complexity

• Revealing local and global optimization potentials by calculating optimized product variants