2007 Tokyo International Automotive Conference

09:30-10:40

Matthias Klauda, CEO, ETAS Group
Hans Goller, Vice President, ETAS Asia Pacific Operation Marketing

Automotive systems have seen a tremendous increase in complexity in recent years. Issues like environmental protection and safety have caused development costs to rise dramatically rise. This strongly influences the competitiveness of car manufacturers and hence has become an important topic on the agenda of top management. In this lecture we will address improvements in the control systems development process as the key to increasing development efficiency.

09:30-10:40

Kazuhiko Yasui, Industrial Sector Executive Automotive Industry, IBM Japan

There are various projects underway in the auto industry which put the emphasis on being environmentally friendly and safe for people while still aiming to supply products and services that will satisfy customers throughout the world. In order to achieve these aims it is essential to innovate in a way which differentiates the company from the competition and creates a new business model. In this presentation IBM will explain how they are working to become a business which will expand globally.

09:30-10:40

Shinjiro Yamada, President & CEO, INCS, INC.

The problems faced by automotive/automotive component manufacturers in 2007 are as follows:

1. An increasing number of market claims due to declining design quality
2. "The worldwide simultaneous launch of full-production and same quality" to address the global phenomenon of a short lifecycle
3. An increase in development man-hours due to an increasing number of development models

They are not the problems with manufacturing of the automotive industry itself, but the development process from design to prototyping, production technologies, production preparation and procurement.

INCS will present the solution in 2007 Tokyo International Automotive Conference to simultaneously resolve the three problems with the development process of the automotive industry by making use of a seven-year experience in the development process solution service.

*Program is subject to change.