Ford Motor Company currently uses a combination of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering, computer-aided manufacturing, and a proprietary product information management database to help enhance product development cycles and quality. These tools combined are referred to as Ford’s C3P policy.
Autoweb has supported Ford’s C3P deployment globally since 2001, and currently hosts secure data exchange between over 1,200 Ford suppliers and 2,300 internal Ford users worldwide. As part of its C3P policy in emerging market regions, Ford will add 500 Asia-Pacific suppliers to its trading partner network.
As part of their subscription, these new suppliers will also be permitted access to Autoweb’s Global Data Exchange application, AFX, enabling them the ability to securely exchange data with Autoweb’s existing community of over 20,000 subscribed AFX users in 40 countries.
Additionally, suppliers will have the ability to utilize enhanced services such as CAD translations, and can check data in or out of Ford’s Product Data Management System as well as access Ford Standards, currently hosted by Autoweb.
