What are Key Success Factors for Automotive OES?

The global automotive industry relies on OES manufacturers to deliver the auto components required to manufacture and maintain modern, complex, automotive designs. Reliable supply chains, excellent quality control and intelligent approaches to efficient, cost-effective manufacturing are all key success factors for the automotive OES industries supporting global automotive brands.

Why is OES vitally important to the modern automotive industry?

Original equipment supply (OES) is vitally important to automotive manufacturers today for several reasons. First among these is that with the increasing technological complexity and engineering sophistication of modern vehicles it has become impossible for automotive manufacturers to successfully compete in all the engineering and technical specializations required to manufacture every part and component required for their current range of vehicles on the market.

The need to maintain an extensive catalogue of parts and components for vehicles that are no longer in production is a second critical factor that drives effective OES supply chains. Spare parts and components need to be readily available to maintain current vehicles as well as previous models and versions. The reputation of an automotive manufacturer partly depends on customer expectations that they are purchasing a high quality product which can be economically maintained for many years to come.

What are 6 benefits of expert OES auto component partnerships?

• Reliable, cost-effective manufacturing of auto parts at an economic scale
• Sustainable, robust, supply chains for global parts supply
• Expert OES partners can provide design input to improve components
• Integration with global standards in parts & inventory catalog systems
• Flexible manufacturing of current and historic components
• Rapid response to fluctuating demand

What are 3 Essential Competencies for Automotive OES Manufacturing?

There are three essential competencies that are required for effective automotive OES manufacturing, these center on engineering skills, quality control and performance testing capabilities and global catalog integration for component supply.

• Reverse & forward engineering competencies specific to auto components
• Quality control & performance testing skills & technologies
• Global catalog integration for after market auto component sales

Reverse & forward engineering of auto components

Even the duplication of an existing OEM auto part is not an easy task, and requires significant technical expertise as well as the correct CAD, CAE and CAM technologies to ensure the design and manufacturing of an equivalent OES part. Ideally, an OES manufacturer will also have the forward engineering design optimization capabilities to refine and improve on OEM designs and make better OES components for after market sales.

Quality & performance testing equipment that matches specifications

Testing equipment and quality and performance evaluations need to be carried out by experienced, competent staff who have access to the latest and most accurate technologies to ensure specifications of OES auto parts meet the engineering requirements. This is vitally important to ensure the supply of safe, fit for purpose, auto components to International Automotive Task Force (IATF) standards, and especially suspension components, where a single faulty part can cause catastrophic failures.

OES Needs to be Integrated into Global Catalog Systems

Any automotive OES manufacturer needs to use a globally recognized catalog system to be competitive in the marketplace today. Perhaps the most important global auto parts catalog is the TecAlliance parts data platform. This platform is used in the auto parts supply chain at all levels from OEM brands down to retail wholesalers, auto parts stores, and automotive workshop suppliers. Conformance with the ACES & PIES standards is essential for after market parts supply as these are globally recognized descriptive protocols.

SH Auto Parts: Your OES Manufacturing Partner for Success

At SH Auto Parts we have the OEM, ODM and OES manufacturing experience, capacity and capabilities to deliver on all the key success factors for OES manufacturing partnerships. We offer reliable, sustainable, cost-effective engineering, CNC machining and high tensile steel stamping of auto parts at any volume, backed up by our continuous production line total quality management systems.

SH Auto Parts OES auto components are manufactured at our Smart Factory in Taiwan, which combines state of the art CNC, CAD, CAE and CAM systems with the perfect location for high quality raw materials and rapid supply chain fulfillment to the global OES auto parts market. Contact our OES specialists to discover how we can help you build on your success in auto component OES manufacturing.