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34    Automotive Lighting  Bernhard Winkler automotiveIT 2012 company often leads to clever appealing solutions Incidentally this also applies to our IT projects How many customer specific pro cesses do you have to map out at Automotive Lighting How many diffe rent applications do you keep at your disposal We supply practically all the of the world s automakers and work with them closely during the entire life cycles of their pro ducts In the design phase we are at the table long before the launch of volume pro duction and need to guarantee parts delive ry for the volume production as well as the aftermarket business That s often a matter of decades These kinds of performance requirements naturally push through to information technology on a one to one basis Like other suppliers we must also be prepared to accept double structures for example in the PLM environment Here we focus on the customer s requirements even if it costs us more money Do you allow solutions to be develo ped within the company A validation phase is linked to every reque st that we receive from the departments As a part of it we do not merely check to see whether a suitable standard application is available within the company We scruti nize the sense and purpose of the request the goals that are to be achieved with the new system A much broader approach to Bernhard Winkler Bernhard Winkler has worked in the auto industry for two decades and is responsible for IT at Auto motive Lighting and its parent Magneti Marelli in Germany the Czech Republic and Russia He previously held leading positions in process and IT consulting with a special focus on automotive suppliers He also teaches production planning and controls part time at Germany s Heilbronn University