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5 To the executive, who took part in the Meeting of the Auto parts Industry, carried out Monday 22 at the São Paulo Expo, the industry as a whole needs to create means to help out the auto parts segment both financially and technologically. There is no consensus yet about the correct route to provide this help. This a controversial issue, and opinions are split: the helping hand the will save the small and medium companies will be public or private? To DavidWong, a consultant with AT Keaney, auto parts were kept out of the radar of government policies for the sector, such as former Inovar-Auto and the newborn Rota 2030, what was a mistake in his opinion and has been singled out as the main culprit for the lethargy in auto parts: “During the boom period there was a lot of public investment but in the wrong places. Todaywe are all paying the price for having allowed an important supply chain to be neglected”. Bosch was one of the large systemist companies that had to create ways to help its suppliers. President Besaliel Botelho defined the incentives granted by the federal government, such as tax exemptions on some of the components, as fundamental in the generation and maintenance of jobs in the auto parts business, and mentioned specific examples of steps taken by Bosch: “We took part two years ago in a program in partnership with local authorities, aimed at capacity building of 25 suppliers which needed to update themselves and so come to terms with the rhythm and quality of our production. Todaywe are running a second program dedicated to industry 4.0. A lot was done during the crisis so that we could achieve the fine tuning of the supply chain”. Photo: Publicity