BMW tracking: Prevention is better than a cure Few manufacturing operations have expanded as much over the past two decades as BMW’s Plant Spartanburg in Greer, South Carolina. After producing 411,000 X-series SUV models in 2016, it is now the carmaker’s largest global facility by assembly volume, and is headed towards its maximum capacity of 450,000 units per year, including the launch this year of the new X3. Chris Ludwig Christopher Ludwig
Mines of information Having invested over the past 20 years in data acquisition technology, the automotive industry is now casting around for ways to make sense of that data. Malcolm Wheatley
