Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts

Vice President - Automotive and Mobility

I work with automotive companies to provide strategic and tactical guidance on how to generate exceptional value by executing well placed manufacturing IT investments. These investments involve using best practices and processes enabled in QAD's Rapid, Agile, and Effective solutions. We partner with storied manufacturers that have been in business for more than a century, and with startups that have not released a single production vehicle.

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Automotive

An Honest Conversation, About Jobs and Chips - Story

September 15, 2021

Tom Roberts QAD

In May 2021, Ola Källenius, CEO of Daimler, spoke about taking on the challenge of speeding up the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), and he said this: "We have to have an honest conversation about jobs. Everyone knows it takes more labor hours to assemble and build a combustion based powertrain compared to an electric powertrain." (1)