What is the future for just-in-time manufacturing?
The semiconductor crisis and ever more complex supply chains have threatened car production like never before. Is the just-in-time model no longer fit for purpose?
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Stephen Norman is senior vice president sales, after sales and marketing for Opel Vauxhall, worldwide. From 2018 to 2021 he was managing director for Vauxhall Motors and senior vice president in Groupe PSA.
He started his career in the motor industry over 45 years ago with British Leyland. In 1980, he became director, car and truck marketing for Leyland Spain. By 1987, he had been appointed marketing director of Rover France, BL’s biggest export market by far. In 1995 he moved to Volkswagen Group France undertaking various senior roles and leaving as président du directoire in 2004. Appointed worldwide marketing director of Fiat Automobiles in Turin in 2005, where he launched the Fiat 500 in 2007, and then of Renault Group in Paris from 2007. Corporate sales and marketing director worldwide of Groupe PSA in 2014.
David Bailey is Professor of Business Economics at the Birmingham Business School, and a Senior Fellow of the ESRC’s UK in a Changing Europe programme, exploring the impacts of Brexit on UK automotive and manufacturing. He has written extensively on industrial and regional policy, especially in relation to manufacturing and the auto industry. He has been involved in a number of recent major projects including the recent Horizon2020 RISE project MAKERS where he led the Work Package on Industrial Policy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal Regional Studies and Chair of the RSA Europe Think-Tank and policy forum. His latest co-edited book ‘Keeping the Wheels on the Road. UK Auto after Brexit’ has recently been published by Bite-Sized Books.
Current CEO of the Klarius Group of Companies, which includes the UK’s largest manufacturer of aftermarket exhausts, Klarius Products, Mark has been at the forefront of implementing LEAN manufacturing processes across the organisation.
Furthermore, he has a proven track record in managerial and presidential roles across the car care and tyre industries having completed successful stints at Dunlop Goodyear, Turtle Wax and as Chairman of the British Tyre Manufacturer’s Association. Outside of the automotive sector, Mark has held multiple directorial positions at both Proctor & Gamble and the Office of National Statistics.
Mark is a journalist with more than a decade of top-level experience in the automotive industry. He first joined Autocar in 2009, having previously worked in local newspapers. He has held several roles at Autocar, including news editor, deputy editor, digital editor and his current position of editor, one he has held since 2017.
From this position he oversees all of Autocar’s content across the print magazine, autocar.co.uk website, social media, video, and podcast channels, as well as our recent launch, Autocar Business. Mark regularly interviews the very top global executives in the automotive industry, telling their stories and holding them to account, meeting them at shows and events around the world.
Mark is a Car of the Year juror, a prestigious annual award that Autocar is one of the main sponsors of. He has made media appearances on the likes of the BBC, and contributed to titles including What Car?, Move Electric and Pistonheads, and also writes a regular column for The Sun.
He graduated from Norton College in Sheffield in 2008 with an NCTJ journalism qualification.