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42 July 2018 | AutoData SCENARIOS » SYSTEMS SUPPLIERS T hat revolutions in the productive sys- tem occur very, very slowly in the automotive industry everyone kno- ws: it is good to remember that the concept of the assembly line as we know today is more than a hundred years old. In addition to automation, which by it- self did not change the productive logic, just by switching men for machines, the only big transformation we have seen in recent times at this point was the birth of systems suppliers companies in the 1990s - and time went by for something around twenty-five years. The vision of the systems supplierswas born essentially from the Spanish José Ignacio López deArriortúa, the Iñaki Lopez or Super-Lopez, hated by some, loved by By Marcos Rozen Productive revolution of the electrics puts systems suppliers in check: they will grow even more or lose many businesses. Mid- term like today hardly will resist. others and owner of a controversial career like few inside the industry. For him it would be possible to transfer all responsibility of the manufacturer production to third parties that would also be responsible for managing the suppliers chain that came below them. These manufacturers would only responsible for developing vehicles, the design, marketing and sales. And that’s it. It was the extreme opposite of Henry Ford’s logic, the same person who foun- ded Ford and invented the assembly line and, in the early days, applied as a solution to lower the costs of internal production of absolutely all the components of an automobile. What we have today is a mixture of the- Arquivo AD/Arte de Aldo Ambrósio Disclousure/Ford BRING FORD BACK OR PRAISE LOPEZ