Supply problems: Ford, Volkswagen or SEAT Touched
A large -scale microprocessor supply problem causes serious problems in several manufacturers, including Seat, Volkswagen and Ford. This is not frankly an industrial secret ...
28/02/2023
A large -scale microprocessor supply problem causes serious problems in several manufacturers, including Seat, Volkswagen and Ford.
It is not frankly an industrial secret, the manufacturers depend above all on their suppliers to produce cars.In reality, brands only produce a very small part of the finished product, the rest being supplied by equipment manufacturers specialized in very distinct fields.
However, there is, at the moment, a big problem of microprocessor supply, essential for many electronic elements of vehicles.The consequences are important since Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda but also Ford have already announced activity reductions in their factories due to stock -out of these chips.
This would be explained by the fact that the manufacturers of these microprocessors have not fully anticipated the resumption of car sales, especially in China.The crisis had made them review their production policy, reoriented towards the field of high-tech, thus abandoning the automobile.
For Volkswagen, the loss would be around 18,000 less vehicles in the coming weeks, with a reduction in the production of public models of around 30 %, especially at Seat.