Automotive IT News and Facts
Swedish supplier Autoliv has pleaded guilty for its role in a price fixing conspiracy and will pay a 14.5 million fine, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a press release. Autoliv has admitted its role in a conspiracy to fix prices of seatbelts, airbags and steering wheels delivered to a carmaker in the [...]
IT experts at Swedish automotive supplier Autoliv are converting 40 European plants to a new, common ERP infrastructure. Top priority for the new system is to make sure that there is an uninterrupted flow of materials to all machinery, says Soenke Gebhardt, IT expert at Autoliv’s German factory in Elmshorn near Hamburg. Equally important is [...]
Autoliv is expanding its Shanghai plant, in a move to boost electronics manufacturing capacity in the Chinese market. The Stockholm-based maker of automotive safety systems and components said it is adding  4,000 square meters to its Shanghai plant to boost local electronics manufacturing capacity by 50 percent. The plant expansion will cost 13 million dollars. [...]
