The auto industry is leading major sectors of manufacturing that are embracing digital transformation for their own reasons and at different paces. The global automotive sector has become the biggest spender on digital transformation, ABI Research’s latest study found, forecasting that the industry will invest nearly $100 billion this year and more than $238 billion annually by 2030 in its transformation to electric vehicles from internal-combustion powertrains.
Automakers need software to design new types of vehicles and work with Tier One parts suppliers to assure performance requirements and the demands of mass customization, while the OEMS will need to transition production to the new types of vehicles without harming production volumes, ABI said.
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