The Perfect is standing in the way of the Good Enough

Looking at the classical OEM platform cycle, approx. every seven years, there is a chance to do something new with a platform refresh. If you have that limited opportunity, you have to shoot for perfection, as there is no room for continuous improvement. Tesla does things differently. They constantly innovate their products to deliver better products to their customers. They think outside the box and the rule book. With that approach, you can change anything on the fly, and the cost advantages of intelligent solutions are passed on to the consumer.

This snippet is from our eleventh Gold Nugget, “Tesla – The old Newcomer with Pranay Verma”, of the Goldcasting podcast. In this episode, we discuss the hottest car brand, Tesla. One spoiler right at the beginning: we´re not talking about the Tesla Gigacasting. But we touch base on Tesla’s sourcing strategy. If you are a foundry eager to grow, listen carefully; there are a lot of insights into how to become a trusted supplier. We talk about why having a mission is critical to giving the customer additional value. You can learn why things have to be different for EVs.

We give you our insight into where Industry 4.0 has to go and how this affects quality management as we know it. To wrap it up, we discuss the value people with different backgrounds bring to the foundry world.

Watch the full Gold Nugget 11 on the Goldcasting website!