Abstract
COVID-19 outbreak has heavily impacted the manufacturing industry, including Brazilian Automotive Industry. The effects of COVID-19 created restrictions in several industry processes as supply chain. On the other hand, several industry 4.0 technologies is able to support the industry supply chain activities in the COVID 19 scenarios, as well it may contributed for the automotive industry recovery and it will define the next steps of this industry. A supply chain is a network between a company and its suppliers to produce and distribute a specific product to the final buyer. Industry 4.0 is related to the technology development and the digitalization process that improve significantly productivity. Considering the automotive process, an important reference model is described in Advanced Product Quality Planning and Control Plan, that is a manual that communicate the guidelines of the product quality planning and control plan for internal and external suppliers. In this scenario, this paper evaluated the current situation and the future outlook for the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in the automotive OEM post-pandemic scenario on the point of view of automotive specialists. The results of this research provide an overview of the current situation and the future outlook for the usage of Industry 4.0 technologies by the Brazilian Northeast automotive OEM, from the perspective of manufacturing engineering experts on APQP.
Highlights
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by Sars-CoV-2 virus and firstly reported in China [1]
We recall that these all results represent the current perceptions and future scenario expectations of some Brazilian Northeast automotive Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing specialists for the use of Industry 4.0 technologies on Advanced Product Quality Planning and Control Plan (APQP)
For the perspective of 05 years ahead, the Internet of Things (IoT) will be highly used from the perspective of more than 60% of the interviewed, supporting the validation of the product and process throughout the whole APQP phases
Summary
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by Sars-CoV-2 virus and firstly reported in China [1]. The automotive industry has a huge contribution in the economy of the country, contributing positively to the generation of jobs and whose financial results are used to measure the current wealth of the international economy [6]. It represents about 5% of the Brazilian gross domestic product (GDP) and approximately 20%
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