The safest way to make lemonade!

Often, life offers all kinds of lemons: acidic, juicy, bright yellow, fragrant, rotten. The Assemblers are absolutely obsessed with the bad lemons, the problematic ones, the ones that expose potentially risky flaws. With this in mind, the members of the Assemblers unit are classic overthinkers that devote a large part of their activity to risk forecasting, while contributing to a cost-efficient and streamlined automotive production system, supporting business quality and customer orientation. Some professionals, when offered any kind of lemon, simply love the idea of making a risk-mitigated lemonade.

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When it comes to cars and software, incidents can have multiple sources of origin, including customers themselves. Part of this unit is a group of people that tracks vehicle problems, from identification to resolution. They focus on documenting and managing the lifecycle of incidents and issues from recognition to categorization and tracking. Concentrating on the problematic lemons, this team methodically explores the causes of accidents and defects to uncover their origin.

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Next door, we can find RiMA. RiMA stands for Risk Management Application so naturally this project follows in the footsteps of the? previous one, only with more risk in the mix. Thus, they work on analysis, assessment, and prioritization of risks. Risk comes before a problem is detected, but generates impacts, incidents and problems, and these can come from anywhere. After risk filtering, these possible risks can be confirmed or not and, ultimately, avoided or mitigated. If the risk cannot be avoided or mitigated, there is a chance it will become a problem (at which point it is transferred to another team). If there's a chaotic scenario to consider, it's already crossed this team's minds.

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Moving away from risks, we now arrive at Error Station. The mission of this EPM (Error Pattern Management) project is to identify early product/service issues and handle a quick root cause analysis. By doing so, they support the diagnostics process to systematically eliminate known customer issues in the dealership and provide error patterns for subsequent processes, so that the team can improve the overall car quality.

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At this point, another team? joins the ride and allows information that was identified in the previous project filters to be sent to certain services in real-time. This means that, if a problem is detected, only the cars with defects have to go to the workshop. This self-diagnosis makes it so that only the defective parts are replaced.

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Fear not, for this unit is not just dedicated to existential crises and listing risks, issues and malfunctions. Their work also involves searching for missing parts and offering solutions where they are needed. For example, within it is a project that calculates all the vehicle and plant parts that need to be ordered at any given time to produce a car. Its mission, a mix of logistics and supply chain management, is to minimize obsolete inventory and unexpected air fares by promoting a single, continuous scheduling of changes for all affected derivatives and plants.

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All in all, life can be a great, beautifully flawed, risky adventure. Still, we know that we have our control freaks Assemblers to ensure that every risk has been foreseen, documented and mitigated. This is a team that enjoys a zesty citrus beverage as much as they enjoy brainstorming the safest and most efficient methods for making lemonade.