Manage Variants & Master Product Complexity in the Automotive Industry
June 21 – 22, 2021 I Maritim proArte Hotel Berlin, Germany
Smart Automotive Variant.CON – Europe’s No. 1 Event on Complexity & Variant Management in Automotive Product Development
The Smart Automotive Variant.CON is the leading European event on complexity and variant management for the automotive industry and the meeting point for more than 150 experts to exchange knowledge and experience, to network and discuss key industry topics while creating new partnerships. For over 7 years, the Smart Automotive Variant.CON has been supporting OEMs, Tier 1s, automotive suppliers and solution providers with its Multi Touchpoint formats over 2.5 days to provide a platform for intense networking and private discussion rounds, inspirational expert keynotes as well as interactive and well moderated World Café round tables – the most interactive live event concept worldwide!
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The Leading European Event on Complexity & Variant Management for the Automotive Industry
Smart Automotive Variant.CON is the meeting point for 150+ experts in complexity and variants management to exchange knowledge and experience, to network and to discuss key industry topics and create new partnerships.
The Smart Automotive Variant.CON Sessions
The 2.5-day event is a unique combination of
- Inspirational keynotes
- 25+ hours of trends and innovation
- Well moderated, interactive World Café sessions
- Challenge your peers and Icebreaker sessions
- Tech-take live sessions
- New product show cases
- 2 evening events
Become a Business Partner
Where else in Europe can you find hundreds of complexity and variant management projects and technology budgets under the same roof?
Our event is a one-stop-shop opportunity for you to promote
thought-leadership and get face-to-face with 150 key prospects.
Smart Automotive Variant.CON offers the best in class opportunity
to introduce yourself as a thought leader to complexity & variant management experts.
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Master Product Complexity in the Automotive Industry
We have Partners
Not Sponsors. The Smart Automotive Variant.CON is a unique event in the business & technology world because of our relationship with our partners. Our aim is to support them to reach their targets and inspire innovation.
Position your business as a thought leader at the Smart Automotive Variant.CON 2021 and join us today!
Good opportunity to learn from each other.
we.CONECT conferences and especially Smart Auto Variant is an innovative hub, where you can tackle your industry challenges with multible experts in your area.
Very interesting event and interesting combination of people – especially the World Café concept was very good.
Good exchange in 1 to 1 and groups. Some new input from presentations.
I mostly appreciated the networking with peers and sharing of experiences.
Key Topics
Product Configuration on the Internet of Things
- With the Internet of Things (IoT), the configuration record is going to be a lot more dynamic. How are we to handle that?
- Defining the challenges IoT is posing on defining and managing configuration of products
- Considering how the configuration record of the product is designed and managed
- Engineering change management
Challenges of a sustainable implementation of modular toolkits
- Implications of modular product architectures on the organisational structure
- Realignment of processes to the toolkit
- Impact of the specific targets linked to the toolkit introduction
- Importance of a “Modular Thinking Organisation” and how transparent targets and success management help
The impact of agile development on variant management
- Software configuration management
- Current state of agile software development methods
- Adaptive software development
Tool based variant analysis and complexity forecast
- Planning and Mastering Product Variation: What is possible? What makes Sense?
- Simulation of effects
- Optimisation of Product Configuration
Modularisation for successful product-service-systems engineering
- Service-Systems Engineering
- Systematic Design and Modularisation of Complex Product-Service-Systems in Times of Digital Transformations
- Service Systems Engineering for Customer-Centric Product Solutions
- Design of Solutions in Multi-Stakeholder Environments
- Interfaces of Products and Services as well as Digital and Non-Digital Offerings
- The myth of system analysis – How model based system engineering methods help to control complexity
- Overview of the conceptual modeling process
- Guiding principles, Reusable, repeatable, generic processes and products
- Iterative, agile-informed development
- Decomposition to primitive elements, Conceptual modelling process elements
- Consistency, standardisation, traceability and organisation
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