Altran - Automotive, Infrastructture & Transportation

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30/01/2012

Altran becomes a "strategic supplier" of PSA Peugeot

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Automotive, Infrastructure and Transportation

A word from the
Executive Director

Altran in the automotive industry

Altran expertise vs. sector challenges

Innovation: what next for Automotive?

Which business models for future mobility?

“In a constantly changing market, our success depends on the ability to master technological challenges and bridge the gap between new-product concept and industrialisation. Working daily on real issues for over 25 years, Altran has developed a unique approach to boost creativity and innovation.

As a System & Business Integrator, our solid Automotive expertise enables us to accompany leading car manufacturers and Tier 1 and 2 suppliers around the world. Altran provides its customers with global solutions in the six key areas of automotive expertise that address automotive challenges related to Globalisation, Mobility, Environmental and Modern industrial issues.

By keeping abreast of evolving trends, Altran has developed a specific interest in one of today’s major issues: telematics. With our in-depth knowledge, we firmly believe that the vehicle of the future will serve not only as a means of transport but also as an instrument of communication. Integrating this “digital world” into the vehicle and consequently the customer’s “connected” life is the essence of the car of the future. Altran’s ambition is to make this happen."

Rieder Kirstan - Executive Director - Automotive, Infrastructure & Transportation

On the following pages you can find details about our solutions, references, and know-how along with features on our organization such as Altran’s Global Account Management strategy tailored for a number of our international clients.

Our aim is to give you an insight into our knowledge and technical excellence while illustrating our ability to collaborate on a cross-sector basis; these are the prerequisites that define our role as a business integrator for our clients.

We hope you enjoy reading about what motivates us and the aspects that are relevant for our business. »

Innovation partner for engineering high-tech mobility solutions

For over 25 years, Altran has been working with leading automotive companies with a view to helping them become high-performance players.

As the engineering leader in the field of Innovation and positioned as an “Innovation Partner” for our clients, Altran provides global solutions, via its global network, in the six key areas of automotive expertise that address the new issues raised by these changing trends. Altran’s solutions provide answers to the fundamental questions related to the future with regards Powertrain, Body In White, Embedded Systems, Mobility Services, Enterprise Performance and Diagnostic & After Sales Services.

Through our extensive research and analysis of high performance in the automotive industry, we have gained tremendous insight into the capabilities that enable companies to outperform their competitors. Altran has developed a unique approach towards end-to-end solutions combining industry and business-process knowledge with unique insight into existing and emerging technologies with regards to:

Understanding and analysing market trends and client expectations
Building up clusters and efficient partnerships
Creating innovative concepts and demonstrating their relevance and feasibility
Defining architecture and managing system-engineering activities
Engineering technical and technological systems
Designing and optimising the supply chain

Thanks to our multi-disciplinary teams we can build up fast and seamless working relationships that take into account the different market structures, competitors and business models in each automotive segment.

Altran provides Automotive industry solutions that are renewed on a constant basis and which provide our clients with access to proven methodologies that take into account shorter innovation cycles.

A global presence bringing us near to our clients’ needs:

Proximity with our clients means we can support their international development
Proximity in high potential countries means we can support their local development

Altran expertise

The automotive industry is facing new and pressing challenges; Globalisation, individualisation, digitalisation and increasing competition are changing the face of the industry, as we know it.

In addition, increasing safety requirements and voluntary environmental commitments by the automotive industry will also contribute to the changes ahead. With regards our objective to help our clients find new ways to create value and prosper in the future, Altran offers a unique approach based on 6 key fields of expertise, that benefits from the Group’s international coverage, in mature and emerging countries alike, as well as from other industries such as the Telecoms & Media, Aerospace & Defense and Energy sectors.

The challenges

Energy and environmental challenge
Improve the environmental performance of heat engines, as well as integrate alternative fuels, hybrid and electric engines. Energy management calls upon invention and the implementation of innovative architecture, new materials and assembly processes, as well as a structure that significantly reduces mass without sacrificing performance and safety.

Safety challenge
The increasing complexity of embedded systems and command-and-control strategies as well as the advent of electric powertrains and traction batteries are becoming new risk sources.
Companies now have to ensure compliance with societal requirements while taking into consideration rapid changes in technologies, faster time-to-market and cost cuts. In the long term, introducing new technologies in a safe and secure will have to remain a priority.

New auto-mobility challenge
Vehicles are becoming Information and Communication Technology platforms connecting drivers to the outside world. Bringing relevant and adapted mobility solutions into the car is a key success factor. New mobility patterns imply increasingly complex vehicles and require implementing more efficient methods and diagnostic tools. Being able to confront this challenge also means being capable of defining and deploying processes and IT systems to ensure that this activity is accurately monitored and constantly optimised and updated.

Driving you to “best-in-class” performance:

International advanced engineering
Innovation consulting
Technological and innovation expertise to enhance performance and bring complex projects to life
Supporting the creation and the development of new products and services

Click on each expertise and discover the solution tailor made for you

Innovation: the future in Automotive

Looking at all the aspects involved in the automotive-innovation framework (societal and governmental influences, technology trends, customer expectations, and innovation in terms of economics, management and strategy), it is clear that innovation is one of the key success factors today to maintaining a strong competitive position in the automotive market.

Innovation is also an essential element with regards resolving most of the global challenges in the automotive sector. Given the potential offered by commercial blockbusters, such as hybrids, light-emitting diodes, and intelligent driver-machine interfaces, electronics still appears to be the most powerful enabler to drive major innovations.

Sustained cost pressure in the automotive industry created by legislation, competition, increasing risk and stagnating customer demand has a strong impact on innovation management. OEMs and suppliers will have to significantly improve efficiency in all R&D processes to keep costs under control, and make car production a profitable business in the future.

Innovation is one of the key success factors today to maintaining a strong competitive position in the automotive market

Few industries are transforming their technological and industrial challenges into opportunities in the same way as the automotive industry. Here, this approach has given rise to innovative trends; new synergies, uses, and infrastructures as well as new major markets, such as those in emerging countries, which offer bright growth prospects for the future.

Although, obviously, the new automotive age will always be rooted in the past, it will also pave the way for exploration into new areas offering a wide scope for creating the innovative mobility solutions of the future.