COPYRIGHT © EUROSTEP GROUP Customer Case: Volvo Cars Handling Complexity of Product Data Across Companies Volvo is one of the premium automove car brands with sales in about 100 countries. Benefits Early Integraon – “Experience has proved the importance of integraon at an early stage in larger project” Flexible – “Integraon should not be built into the internal structure, it takes away flexibility” To the point – “A large poron of collaborave data is im- portant here and now. Long term only a limited part of that data will need to be saved” Small step approach – “Building brick by brick from the ground is proven to be the best foundaon” Keep exisng soſtware and processes - “Training and investments in technology kept at a minimum” Situaon Volvo Cars has a long history of building cars in collaboraon with other car manufacturers around the world. Since 2010 Volvo Cars has been part of Geely Group. Over the years the collaboraon has spanned common product development as well as common producon. Following successful introduc- on and sales for new models Volvo Cars is now moving forward and its collaboraons and joint ventures are grow- ing in number as well as complexity. Problem Sharing of product informaon across organizaons is com- plex. With increasing product complexity this challenge is growing. In order to manage the situaon and support the growth Volvo Cars had the need for a fast and flexible sys- tem to meet the following challenges: Management of mulple collaboraon projects Outsourcing of larger, more complex, assignments. Secure technology sharing with other OEMs and sys- tem suppliers Rapid set-up of new joint ventures Easy establishment and terminaon of collaboraons Soluon ShareAspace maintains the part informaon of “Shared Technology” between Volvo Cars and its partners. The solu- on is delivered as a hosted cloud service. It presents Volvo Cars with up to date informaon on technology shared with partners, manages intellectual property (IP) as requested and implements a controlled change process. Users connue to work with their current tools and exisng processes. This minimize the need for training and change of IT tools.