Integrity of file transfer between its suppliers and parent company in Germany is vital to BMW South Africa as the company gears up for Just-in-Time (JIT) parts supply to meet the demands of export production.
The Imperial Motor Group, the biggest Toyota dealer group in South Africa with 22 branches nationwide, is upgrading its dealer management system. The company has selected a Corollary Promaster supplied by Computer Configurations as its new hardware platform.
Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) has opted for SAP R/3 to provide a technology platform to support its business strategy. SAP R/3 is now used by well over 80% of the South African automotive OEM market.
Toyota South Africa said its vision of world-class competitiveness, an increased market share and production improvement were the prime motivators behind the company`s decision to implement SAP R/3 enterprise business software solution.
Chrysler has used Silicon Graphics workstations to design its next generation of full-size sedans, claimed to be the first paperless car designs. Chrysler said the Silicon Graphics` workstations have saved them months of work.
Audi AG is using the VPP300E supercomputer from Siemens Nixdorf to simulate and optimise the behavior of vehicle bodywork in crash situations. With 16 processors, a main memory of 32GB and computing performance reaching 40 GFLOPS, the VPP300E system is among the most powerful supercomputers in the automotive industry in Europe.
SSA Automotive has won contracts from one of Mazda Cars Limited (MCL) group`s leading UK automotive aftermarket and supply chain logistics operations, Autoflow. Autoflow has purchased 24 products from the BPCS Client/Server Product line.
BMW SA says it has slashed its mainframe batch window in half since implementing Control-M, New Dimension`s system scheduler. BMW says the cost savings and benefits of Control-M have raised the bar of IT performance at company`s Rosslyn and Midrand-based plants.
Ford Motor Company recently took delivery of the first two Bay Networks' Accelar 1200 routing switches.The switches will be used within Ford's Global TCP/IP Intranet for Gigabit-speed data communications between the Ford facilities.