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44    Audi AG  Mattias Ulbrich automotiveIT 2012 with it and support the company s compe titiveness We are living this commitment to all the company s divisions every day The importance that IT holds at and for Audi will continue to grow tremendous ly Our management board has confirmed that information technology is one of the company s core competencies That is why we examine very carefully which of our IT services we intend to grant our external partners and which ones we want to handle ourselves How much IT do you do in house and how much do you outsource We don t communicate that type of figure I ll say this much We are not ruling out the idea of continuing to expand IT capa city in the Volkswagen Group overall and doing even more in house in the future On many innovative themes Audi IT will certainly take on a pacesetter role in pursu ing our objectives This is the result of the cooperative relationship that we have with VW Group CIO Martin Hofmann in Wolfs burg We have identified quite a few issues that we will tackle together For example we want to continue to improve the user friendliness of our IT systems You will need close collaboration with the divisions for that Exactly That is why I am carrying on an intensive dialogue with Ricky Hudi who heads electrical electronic development at Audi for example Right now just be fore the production launch of the new A3 we are in touch practically on a daily basis as we work together to handle the launch successfully But we are also working on issues collaboratively with our colleagues in other areas That is clearly the recipe for our success Can you give us a concrete example There are several Let me single out the electronic building sheet Here in manuf acturing at Ingolstadt since May we have equipped more than 400 positions in A3 assembly with a system that all employees use to obtain real time information that they need for their individual step in the production process The traditional paper production sheet with all the data on the vehicle such as the interior equipment type of powertrain and country specific in formation is now history after 30 years And the beauty is that no one misses it The many model and equipment variations that we have in the line up could hardly be pre sented in analog form At many stations employees had to gather two or three let