#Automotive software

[emmarodriguez]

Software solutions are crucial for managing many parts of the automotive sector, which has been greatly impacted by technological change. Solutions for the automotive software business can, therefore, increase profits, streamline operations, and improve workflow efficiency. Car lots, garages, and other automotive companies can also benefit from the correct software solutions when it comes to keeping up with the ever-changing industry.

[arjunvib]

What is the difference between CAN and Autosar?

CAN stands for Controller Area Network Imagine it as a communication channel. This channel allows electronic control units (ECUs) in a car to talk to each other. The ECUs are like individual computers controlling different parts of the car (engine, brakes, airbags). CAN provides a way for these ECUs to send messages back and forth, like "engine needs more fuel" or "brakes need to slow down." While AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) is a software framework. Think of it like a set of instructions or a blueprint for how to write software for those ECUs. AUTOSAR doesn't tell the ECUs what to talk about (like CAN), but rather how to structure their conversations and what kind of language they should use. This helps make sure all the software in the car works together smoothly, even if it's made by different companies.

Know more about Autosar here. https://www.kpit.com/insights/insights-adaptive-autosar/

[merchantservices444]

Automotive POS System

[kpit-technologies]

How will software-defined Vehicles (SDVs) shape the future of mobility?

How will software-defined Vehicles (SDVs) shape the future of mobility?

URL: https://www.kpit.com/software-defined-vehicle/

Status: Yet to post

Description:

World over there are big megatrends that are impacting mobility:

➡️ Extended ownership for vehicles

➡️ Expectation that vehicles can be personalized to every user's needs

➡️ Climate consciousness and regulatory environment leading to cleaner vehicles

➡️ Safety emphasis leading to more driver assistance and autonomous driving

The net result is that consumers worldwide are expecting more from their vehicles. They want to be able to use features on demand, personalize, and control the entire experience.

Over the last 15 years, the role of software in vehicles has entered new paradigms and become the key enabler for transformation.

The mobility Industry is trying to harness the power of software, semiconductors, and cloud to create a new vehicle architecture that will power multiple use cases and unlock competitive advantage in meeting consumers' diverse needs.

The current strategy for OEMs revolves around harnessing software's potential to cater to these evolving demands and create multiple avenues for monetization throughout the vehicle's lifecycle. This approach is central to the concept of Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs), the focal point of the mobility industry today.

[autoservicesoftware]

Why Software Management Systems are Crucial For an Automotive Repair Shop?

You all may know how effective automotive software systems are for your workshops. They provide a number of facilities to you which can ease the work and enable you to more efficient handling of the management process. It helps the owner to overcome the challenge of doing more repairs in less time.

If you don’t have these software systems in your auto-repair shops, you are surely losing a great opportunity to execute your work properly and effectively. But the main question is, out of so manymanagement software, how to choose the best one? Don’t worry because you will be going to learn that in today’s blog. So, let’s start.

How to Find the Best Software System for Your Auto-Repair Workshop?

There are hundreds of options available for Automotive Software. Choosing the one from them is a very challenging decision. But if you select the wrong one, it will cost you time and money and will result in disappointment. Hence, to select the perfect one for your shop, you must consider the following recommendations:

Know Your Business Needs- Very importantly, you must think carefully what are the needs of your business. Which work areas are your priority where you need assistance and list challenges which you want the new tool to solve. This will help you in speeding up the search process for your software ensuring the best outcomes.

Can be Used on All Devices- Make sure that the system is flexible to use on all devices. The one that can be operated on mobile, laptops, and PCs. In case, any of these devices do not work properly, you can use another one to check the work until it gets repaired. So, ensure the software you are looking for is capable of offering you this flexibility.

Check the Support Options- No matter how good the repair software is, issues still can happen in it. This is why having access to a professional support team is crucial which can help helps in fixing and correcting its settings. You can look for online email, chat, and phone accessibility these channels are highly convenient.

Tracking Warranty Works- Keeping track of regular work orders is an essential function of Automotive Management Systems but recording the warranty repairs demands a different logic. A different type of work order is used for these cases. It is created as a new work order which means you don’t need to change the order of old closed work. Having this option in your system is very much essential.

Look at Customer Reviews-  Never forget to check the reviews of customers. Reading the feedback, ratings, and what other shop owners say about the solution you are looking for will help you to know whether you should consider them seriously or not.

So, above above-mentioned are some most crucial factors that must be ensured to choosing the best management software for the effective management of your repair shop.

[phoenixbizz]

PhoenixBizz offers custom automotive software development services. We design and develop automotive software for manufacturing companies, and automotive startups.

[ishaanvarma606]

This article delves into the transformative impact of cloud-based development in automotive software.Cloud computing is revolutionizing the automotive industry – by quickly adapting to remote servers so as to store, manage, and process data, replacing local devices or hard disks. Read this blog more.

[cmibloggers]

Automotive Embedded Systems Market Is Estimated To Witness High Growth Owing To Increasing Adoption of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Growing Demand for Connected Cars

The global Automotive Embedded Systems Market is estimated to be valued at US$ 9.6 Bn in 2023 and is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 6.0% over the forecast period 2023-2030, as highlighted in a new report published by Coherent Market Insights.  

Market Overview:

The automotive embedded systems market involves the integration of hardware and software in vehicles to provide enhanced functionality and features. These systems enhance vehicle performance, safety, and efficiency. Examples of products associated with this market include advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), infotainment systems, powertrain control modules, electronic control units, and telematics systems. The increasing demand for advanced features in vehicles, such as navigation, connectivity, and autonomous driving capabilities, is driving the growth of the market.  

Market Dynamics:

The two major drivers contributing to the growth of the automotive embedded systems market are the increasing adoption of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the growing demand for connected cars.   Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are designed to improve vehicle safety by providing drivers with warnings and automated features to prevent accidents. These systems utilize embedded technologies such as sensors, cameras, and algorithms to monitor the surrounding environment and assist drivers in making critical decisions. The increasing focus on reducing road accidents and enhancing passenger safety is driving the demand for ADAS, thereby fueling the growth of the automotive embedded systems market.  

The growing demand for connected cars is another significant driver for the market. Connected cars leverage embedded systems to enable communication between the vehicle, driver, and external devices or networks. These systems provide features such as vehicle tracking, remote diagnostics, real-time traffic updates, and entertainment services. The increasing consumer demand for seamless connectivity and enhanced driving experience is propelling the adoption of connected cars, leading to the growth of the automotive embedded systems market.  

Market Key Trends:

One key trend observed in the Automotive Embedded Systems Market is the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies. AI and ML algorithms enable vehicles to analyze and learn from real-time data, thereby improving the accuracy and efficiency of embedded systems. For example, AI-powered ADAS can identify and predict potentially dangerous situations on the road, leading to proactive safety measures. This trend of integrating AI and ML technologies is likely to drive innovation and create new opportunities in the automotive embedded systems market.  

SWOT Analysis:

Strengths:

1. Growing demand for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)

2. Increasing adoption of connected cars  

Weaknesses:

1. High implementation costs

2. Complexity in integrating multiple systems  

Opportunities:

1. Growing demand for electric vehicles and autonomous driving technology

2. Expansion into emerging markets with rising automotive industry  

Threats:

1. Increasing cybersecurity risks for connected vehicles

2. Stringent regulations and compliance standards  

Key Takeaways:

The global automotive embedded systems market is expected to witness high growth, exhibiting a CAGR of 6.0% over the forecast period. This growth is driven by the increasing adoption of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the growing demand for connected cars.   In terms of regional analysis, Asia Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing and dominating region in the automotive embedded systems market. The rapid expansion of the automotive industry in countries like China and India, coupled with the increasing disposable income of consumers, is fueling the demand for advanced features and connected vehicles in this region.   Key players operating in the global automotive embedded systems market include Robert Bosch GmbH, Panasonic Corporation, Toshiba, Continental AG, Denso Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Texas Instruments Incorporated, Infineon Technologies AG, and Harman International. These players are focusing on strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and product innovations to strengthen their market position and cater to the growing demand for automotive embedded systems.

[emmarodriguez]

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[arjunvib]

Cutting Edge Automotive Software solutions, Best Place to Grow through KPIT

KPIT Technologies is a global partner to the automotive and Mobility ecosystem for making software-defined vehicles a reality. It is a leading independent software development and integration partner helping mobility leapfrog towards a clean, smart, and safe future. With 13000+ automobelievers across the globe specializing in embedded software, AI, and digital solutions, KPIT accelerates its clients’ implementation of next-generation technologies for the future mobility roadmap. With engineering centers in Europe, the USA, Japan, China, Thailand, and India, KPIT works with leaders in automotive and Mobility and is present where the ecosystem is transforming.

[maazglobal]

MaaZ

MaaZ brings a full suite of AUTOSAR safety and efficiency solutions for worldwide chipmakers, tier-1 automotive suppliers, and Car OEMs. Maaz is an automotive software solution stack based in Vietnam, offering its service worldwide. Monozukuri Adaptive AUTOSAR is empowered by FPT Software, a global partner for the development of the Software-Defined Vehicle.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you

On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH, in QUEENS, NY. Happy Bastille Day! On July 20, I'm appearing in CHICAGO at Exile in Bookville.

In 2017, Equifax suffered the worst data-breach in world history, leaking the deep, nonconsensual dossiers it had compiled on 148m Americans and 15m Britons, (and 19k Canadians) into the world, to form an immortal, undeletable reservoir of kompromat and premade identity-theft kits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach

Equifax knew the breach was coming. It wasn't just that their top execs liquidated their stock in Equifax before the announcement of the breach – it was also that they ignored years of increasingly urgent warnings from IT staff about the problems with their server security.

Things didn't improve after the breach. Indeed, the 2017 Equifax breach was the starting gun for a string of more breaches, because Equifax's servers didn't just have one fubared system – it was composed of pure, refined fubar. After one group of hackers breached the main Equifax system, other groups breached other Equifax systems, over and over, and over:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equifax-password-username-admin-lawsuit-201118316.html

Doesn't this remind you of Boeing? It reminds me of Boeing. The spectacular 737 Max failures in 2018 weren't the end of the scandal. They weren't even the scandal's start – they were the tipping point, the moment in which a long history of lethally defective planes "breached" from the world of aviation wonks and into the wider public consciousness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Boeing_737

Just like with Equifax, the 737 Max disasters tipped Boeing into a string of increasingly grim catastrophes. Each fresh disaster landed with the grim inevitability of your general contractor texting you that he's just opened up your ceiling and discovered that all your joists had rotted out – and that he won't be able to deal with that until he deals with the termites he found last week, and that they'll have to wait until he gets to the cracks in the foundation slab from the week before, and that those will have to wait until he gets to the asbestos he just discovered in the walls.

Drip, drip, drip, as you realize that the most expensive thing you own – which is also the thing you had hoped to shelter for the rest of your life – isn't even a teardown, it's just a pure liability. Even if you razed the structure, you couldn't start over, because the soil is full of PCBs. It's not a toxic asset, because it's not an asset. It's just toxic.

Equifax isn't just a company: it's infrastructure. It started out as an engine for racial, political and sexual discrimination, paying snoops to collect gossip from nosy neighbors, which was assembled into vast warehouses full of binders that told bank officers which loan applicants should be denied for being queer, or leftists, or, you know, Black:

https://jacobin.com/2017/09/equifax-retail-credit-company-discrimination-loans

This witch-hunts-as-a-service morphed into an official part of the economy, the backbone of the credit industry, with a license to secretly destroy your life with haphazardly assembled "facts" about your life that you had the most minimal, grudging right to appeal (or even see). Turns out there are a lot of customers for this kind of service, and the capital markets showered Equifax with the cash needed to buy almost all of its rivals, in mergers that were waved through by a generation of Reaganomics-sedated antitrust regulators.

There's a direct line from that acquisition spree to the Equifax breach(es). First of all, companies like Equifax were early adopters of technology. They're a database company, so they were the crash-test dummies for ever generation of database. These bug-riddled, heavily patched systems were overlaid with subsequent layers of new tech, with new defects to be patched and then overlaid with the next generation.

These systems are intrinsically fragile, because things fall apart at the seams, and these systems are all seams. They are tech-debt personified. Now, every kind of enterprise will eventually reach this state if it keeps going long enough, but the early digitizers are the bow-wave of that coming infopocalypse, both because they got there first and because the bottom tiers of their systems are composed of layers of punchcards and COBOL, crumbling under the geological stresses of seventy years of subsequent technology.

The single best account of this phenomenon is the British Library's postmortem of their ransomware attack, which is also in the running for "best hard-eyed assessment of how fucked things are":

https://www.bl.uk/home/british-library-cyber-incident-review-8-march-2024.pdf

There's a reason libraries, cities, insurance companies, and other giant institutions keep getting breached: they started accumulating tech debt before anyone else, so they've got more asbestos in the walls, more sagging joists, more foundation cracks and more termites.

That was the starting point for Equifax – a company with a massive tech debt that it would struggle to pay down under the most ideal circumstances.

Then, Equifax deliberately made this situation infinitely worse through a series of mergers in which it bought dozens of other companies that all had their own version of this problem, and duct-taped their failing, fucked up IT systems to its own. The more seams an IT system has, the more brittle and insecure it is. Equifax deliberately added so many seams that you need to be able to visualized additional spatial dimensions to grasp them – they had fractal seams.

But wait, there's more! The reason to merge with your competitors is to create a monopoly position, and the value of a monopoly position is that it makes a company too big to fail, which makes it too big to jail, which makes it too big to care. Each Equifax acquisition took a piece off the game board, making it that much harder to replace Equifax if it fucked up. That, in turn, made it harder to punish Equifax if it fucked up. And that meant that Equifax didn't have to care if it fucked up.

Which is why the increasingly desperate pleas for more resources to shore up Equifax's crumbling IT and security infrastructure went unheeded. Top management could see that they were steaming directly into an iceberg, but they also knew that they had a guaranteed spot on the lifeboats, and that someone else would be responsible for fishing the dead passengers out of the sea. Why turn the wheel?

That's what happened to Boeing, too: the company acquired new layers of technical complexity by merging with rivals (principally McDonnell-Douglas), and then starved the departments that would have to deal with that complexity because it was being managed by execs whose driving passion was to run a company that was too big to care. Those execs then added more complexity by chasing lower costs by firing unionized, competent, senior staff and replacing them with untrained scabs in jurisdictions chosen for their lax labor and environmental enforcement regimes.

(The biggest difference was that Boeing once had a useful, high-quality product, whereas Equifax started off as an irredeemably terrible, if efficient, discrimination machine, and grew to become an equally terrible, but also ferociously incompetent, enterprise.)

This is the American story of the past four decades: accumulate tech debt, merge to monopoly, exponentially compound your tech debt by combining barely functional IT systems. Every corporate behemoth is locked in a race between the eventual discovery of its irreparable structural defects and its ability to become so enmeshed in our lives that we have to assume the costs of fixing those defects. It's a contest between "too rotten to stand" and "too big to care."

Remember last February, when we all discovered that there was a company called Change Healthcare, and that they were key to processing virtually every prescription filled in America? Remember how we discovered this? Change was hacked, went down, ransomed, and no one could fill a scrip in America for more than a week, until they paid the hackers $22m in Bitcoin?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Change_Healthcare_ransomware_attack

How did we end up with Change Healthcare as the linchpin of the entire American prescription system? Well, first Unitedhealthcare became the largest health insurer in America by buying all its competitors in a series of mergers that comatose antitrust regulators failed to block. Then it combined all those other companies' IT systems into a cosmic-scale dog's breakfast that barely ran. Then it bought Change and used its monopoly power to ensure that every Rx ran through Change's servers, which were part of that asbestos-filled, termite-infested, crack-foundationed, sag-joisted teardown. Then, it got hacked.

United's execs are the kind of execs on a relentless quest to be too big to care, and so they don't care. Which is why their they had to subsequently announce that they had suffered a breach that turned the complete medical histories of one third of Americans into immortal Darknet kompromat that is – even now – being combined with breach data from Equifax and force-fed to the slaves in Cambodia and Laos's pig-butchering factories:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/politics/data-stolen-healthcare-hack/index.html

Those slaves are beaten, tortured, and punitively raped in compounds to force them to drain the life's savings of everyone in Canada, Australia, Singapore, the UK and Europe. Remember that they are downstream of the forseeable, inevitable IT failures of companies that set out to be too big to care that this was going to happen.

Failures like Ticketmaster's, which flushed 500 million users' personal information into the identity-theft mills just last month. Ticketmaster, you'll recall, grew to its current scale through (you guessed it), a series of mergers en route to "too big to care" status, that resulted in its IT systems being combined with those of Ticketron, Live Nation, and dozens of others:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/business/ticketmaster-hack-data-breach.html

But enough about that. Let's go car-shopping!

Good luck with that. There's a company you've never heard. It's called CDK Global. They provide "dealer management software." They are a monopolist. They got that way after being bought by a private equity fund called Brookfield. You can't complete a car purchase without their systems, and their systems have been hacked. No one can buy a car:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/business/cdk-global-cyber-attack-update/index.html

Writing for his BIG newsletter, Matt Stoller tells the all-too-familiar story of how CDK Global filled the walls of the nation's auto-dealers with the IT equivalent of termites and asbestos, and lays the blame where it belongs: with a legal and economics establishment that wanted it this way:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-supreme-court-justice-is-why-you

The CDK story follows the Equifax/Boeing/Change Healthcare/Ticketmaster pattern, but with an important difference. As CDK was amassing its monopoly power, one of its execs, Dan McCray, told a competitor, Authenticom founder Steve Cottrell that if he didn't sell to CDK that he would "fucking destroy" Authenticom by illegally colluding with the number two dealer management company Reynolds.

Rather than selling out, Cottrell blew the whistle, using Cottrell's own words to convince a district court that CDK had violated antitrust law. The court agreed, and ordered CDK and Reynolds – who controlled 90% of the market – to continue to allow Authenticom to participate in the DMS market.

Dealers cheered this on: CDK/Reynolds had been steadily hiking prices, while ingesting dealer data and using it to gouge the dealers on additional services, while denying dealers access to their own data. The services that Authenticom provided for $35/month cost $735/month from CDK/Reynolds (they justified this price hike by saying they needed the additional funds to cover the costs of increased information security!).

CDK/Reynolds appealed the judgment to the 7th Circuit, where a panel of economists weighed in. As Stoller writes, this panel included monopoly's most notorious (and well-compensated) cheerleader, Frank Easterbrook, and the "legendary" Democrat Diane Wood. They argued for CDK/Reynolds, demanding that the court release them from their obligations to share the market with Authenticom:

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-7th-circuit/1879150.html

The 7th Circuit bought the argument, overturning the lower court and paving the way for the CDK/Reynolds monopoly, which is how we ended up with one company's objectively shitty IT systems interwoven into the sale of every car, which meant that when Russian hackers looked at that crosseyed, it split wide open, allowing them to halt auto sales nationwide. What happens next is a near-certainty: CDK will pay a multimillion dollar ransom, and the hackers will reward them by breaching the personal details of everyone who's ever bought a car, and the slaves in Cambodian pig-butchering compounds will get a fresh supply of kompromat.

But on the plus side, the need to pay these huge ransoms is key to ensuring liquidity in the cryptocurrency markets, because ransoms are now the only nondiscretionary liability that can only be settled in crypto:

https://locusmag.com/2022/09/cory-doctorow-moneylike/

When the 7th Circuit set up every American car owner to be pig-butchered, they cited one of the most important cases in antitrust history: the 2004 unanimous Supreme Court decision in Verizon v Trinko:

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2003/02-682

Trinko was a case about whether antitrust law could force Verizon, a telcoms monopolist, to share its lines with competitors, something it had been ordered to do and then cheated on. The decision was written by Antonin Scalia, and without it, Big Tech would never have been able to form. Scalia and Trinko gave us the modern, too-big-to-care versions of Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft and the other tech baronies.

In his Trinko opinion, Scalia said that "possessing monopoly power" and "charging monopoly prices" was "not unlawful" – rather, it was "an important element of the free-market system." Scalia – writing on behalf of a unanimous court! – said that fighting monopolists "may lessen the incentive for the monopolist…to invest in those economically beneficial facilities."

In other words, in order to prevent monopolists from being too big to care, we have to let them have monopolies. No wonder Trinko is the Zelig of shitty antitrust rulings, from the decision to dismiss the antitrust case against Facebook and Apple's defense in its own ongoing case:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/073_2021.06.28_mtd_order_memo.pdf

Trinko is the origin node of too big to care. It's the reason that our whole economy is now composed of "infrastructure" that is made of splitting seams, asbestos, termites and dry rot. It's the reason that the entire automotive sector became dependent on companies like Reynolds, whose billionaire owner intentionally and illegally destroyed evidence of his company's crimes, before going on to commit the largest tax fraud in American history:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/billionaire-robert-brockman-accused-of-biggest-tax-fraud-in-u-s-history-dies-at-81-11660226505

Trinko begs companies to become too big to care. It ensures that they will exponentially increase their IT debt while becoming structurally important to whole swathes of the US economy. It guarantees that they will underinvest in IT security. It is the soil in which pig butchering grew.

It's why you can't buy a car.

Now, I am fond of quoting Stein's Law at moments like this: "anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop." As Stoller writes, after two decades of unchallenged rule, Trinko is looking awfully shaky. It was substantially narrowed in 2023 by the 10th Circuit, which had been briefed by Biden's antitrust division:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca10/22-1164/22-1164-2023-08-21.html

And the cases of 2024 have something going for them that Trinko lacked in 2004: evidence of what a fucking disaster Trinko is. The wrongness of Trinko is so increasingly undeniable that there's a chance it will be overturned.

But it won't go down easy. As Stoller writes, Trinko didn't emerge from a vacuum: the economic theories that underpinned it come from some of the heroes of orthodox economics, like Joseph Schumpeter, who is positively worshipped. Schumpeter was antitrust's OG hater, who wrote extensively that antitrust law didn't need to exist because any harmful monopoly would be overturned by an inevitable market process dictated by iron laws of economics.

Schumpeter wrote that monopolies could only be sustained by "alertness and energy" – that there would never be a monopoly so secure that its owner became too big to care. But he went further, insisting that the promise of attaining a monopoly was key to investment in great new things, because monopolists had the economic power that let them plan and execute great feats of innovation.

The idea that monopolies are benevolent dictators has pervaded our economic tale for decades. Even today, critics who deplore Facebook and Google do so on the basis that they do not wield their power wisely (say, to stamp out harassment or disinformation). When confronted with the possibility of breaking up these companies or replacing them with smaller platforms, those critics recoil, insisting that without Big Tech's scale, no one will ever have the power to accomplish their goals:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/18/urban-wildlife-interface/#combustible-walled-gardens

But they misunderstand the relationship between corporate power and corporate conduct. The reason corporations accumulate power is so that they can be insulated from the consequences of the harms they wreak upon the rest of us. They don't inflict those harms out of sadism: rather, they do so in order to externalize the costs of running a good system, reaping the profits of scale while we pay its costs.

The only reason to accumulate corporate power is to grow too big to care. Any corporation that amasses enough power that it need not care about us will not care about it. You can't fix Facebook by replacing Zuck with a good unelected social media czar with total power over billions of peoples' lives. We need to abolish Zuck, not fix Zuck.

Zuck is not exceptional: there were a million sociopaths whom investors would have funded to monopolistic dominance if he had balked. A monopoly like Facebook has a Zuck-shaped hole at the top of its org chart, and only someone Zuck-shaped will ever fit through that hole.

Our whole economy is now composed of companies with sociopath-shaped holes at the tops of their org chart. The reason these companies can only be run by sociopaths is the same reason that they have become infrastructure that is crumbling due to sociopathic neglect. The reckless disregard for the risk of combining companies is the source of the market power these companies accumulated, and the market power let them neglect their systems to the point of collapse.

This is the system that Schumpeter, and Easterbrook, and Wood, and Scalia – and the entire Supreme Court of 2004 – set out to make. The fact that you can't buy a car is a feature, not a bug. The pig-butcherers, wallowing in an ocean of breach data, are a feature, not a bug. The point of the system was what it did: create unimaginable wealth for a tiny cohort of the worst people on Earth without regard to the collapse this would provoke, or the plight of those of us trapped and suffocating in the rubble.

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[univsoftwareinc]

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[tridentinfotech]

6 Hacks Boost Profit in Your Steel Manufacturing Business with D365

Steel Manufacturing / By Trident Information Systems

Manufacturers looked at boosting customer happiness and productivity optimization separately until a few years ago. However, digital disruption is fundamentally altering how manufacturers conduct business. By utilizing Advance Steel Software, they are bringing about transformative change throughout the organization to enhance product quality, reduce time to market, and satisfy a variety of client expectations. 

Dynamics 365 for Manufacturers and Distributors provides deep insight into the supply chain and manufacturing lifecycles, warehousing specifics, and delivery schedules to meet these challenges. Improving visibility, increasing efficiency, and reducing costs are three of the top concerns for manufacturers. Purpose-built apps provide easy access across departments like finance, sales, customer service, and supply chain operations by combining company activities into one comprehensive solution. Increased production and profitability are made possible by having crucial data at your fingertips. Continue reading to learn about the top 6 hacks to boost your profit with Dynamics ER for Steel Industry: 

#1 Reinforce Your Plant with Agile Project Management 

Nothing is more annoying than a poor project management approach. In the United States, $122 million is lost for every $1 billion invested owing to subpar project performance. You won’t be able to accomplish the project’s objectives if you can’t see the correct cost, effort, and income metrics throughout the entire project. 

Imagine being able to track the performance of every manufacturing operation you have (in terms of timely execution, quality, and cost) using Power BI reports on production performance. Alternatively, you may analyze, monitor, and approve all projects that have a financial or time impact using user-friendly dashboards. Then, by controlling important KPIs and assuring profitable service delivery, you can react swiftly to scope changes and project hazards. With the help of D365 Advance Steel Software, you can accomplish all of this in addition to enabling intelligent and pertinent skill-based assignments, accurately measuring utilization, and making wise decisions to make the most of billable resources. 

#2 Stay Updated on Various Aspects of Your Business  

Business excellence is fueled by visibility into the whole production process. You can never get visibility into end-to-end operations if you can’t gather, integrate, and visualize global supply chain data globally. Only 44% of supply chain leaders have a strategy in place, even though 94% of them believe that digital transformation would profoundly alter supply networks in 2018. Dynamics 365 ERP for Metal Industry will enhance supply chain data access, which will enhance communication between production, supply, service, and sales. A more complete picture of all operations can be obtained by fostering departmental collaboration and linking various business systems. Additionally, a breakdown of metrics by product and resource can increase visibility for better operations. 

#3 Reinforce Your Employees with Advance Steel Software 

The research found that 53% of Americans are currently dissatisfied with their jobs. One of the first steps in creating a fantastic manufacturing organization is empowering employees. The productivity and effectiveness of routine jobs can be increased when personnel are given the appropriate tools and data. 

Dynamics 365 Advance Steel Software gives users access to tools tailored to their roles and a 360-degree perspective of the business, which can help them improve and adjust their working methods to fit in with the modern manufacturing environment. Greater productivity can be attained by integrating the unstructured work of collaboration with the organized work of business operations. You can only enable great experiences in employee acquisition, engagement, growth, and retention when you bring out the best in your people. Giving employees regular feedback and collaborating on assessments helps to provide consumers with individualized service. 

#4 Resolve Solutions Remotely to Boost Productivity 

Being more productive requires more than just working more; it also requires adding value to everything you do. A consolidated picture of operations and accessibility to mobile and virtual reality tools for monitoring and remote problem-solving increases manufacturing productivity. Technicians can increase productivity and reduce expensive engagements by strategically coordinating work and utilizing their existing skills. 

Since providing outstanding customer service is what sets achievers apart from those who fall short, giving agents access to smart tools while they are on the move can increase productivity. Productivity can be increased by using well-known Metal Fabrication Software features to create tailored sales papers, utilizing a rich, event-driven sales process, prioritizing tasks, accessing pertinent and contextual information, and working offline on phones and tablets. 

#5 Prioritize Customization for Customers  

Providing clients with more visibility and trust through individualized customer care is essential for any manufacturing company to succeed. A fantastic technique to guarantee prompt resolution without having to speak to a technician is to deliver value-added customer assistance through self-service, community, or social channels; automating resolution can free up agents for high-value interactions. Additionally, personnel can prevent service problems by acting in advance thanks to the continuous analysis of data from connected equipment. Customer feedback can be improved through surveys, online forums, feedback forms, and social listening. Additionally, employees may anticipate demands more effectively, tailor every conversation, and provide value at every touchpoint when they have a 360-degree perspective of each customer’s journey. 

#6 Employ Advance Steel Software 

To be competitive, businesses must work more quickly and intelligently. Microsoft Advance Steel Software bridges the gap between CRM and ERP systems, providing manufacturers with the resources they need to speed up business operations and introduce better products more quickly. By combining many components of the manufacturing lifecycle, it adds sophisticated analytics, embedded intelligence, and the convenience customers expect from consumer apps on their phones or tablet to critical capabilities. Leveraging Structural Steel Fabrication Software like Dynamics 365 can be a critical element for better results because digital transformation isn’t completed quickly. Manufacturers can provide effective project management, get operational visibility, empower staff, increase corporate productivity, and provide individualized service. 

Apart from easy data access, Advance Steel Software by D365 ensures bank-level data security. Hosted on Microsoft Azure Cloud, if you are looking for a D365 Implementation partner, you can contact Trident. We are Gold D365 Partner and LS Retail Diamond Partner.