Manufacturing Industry
Covisint dreams up tools for its e-market.
Plastics News, October, 2000 by NEWS, Ralph Kisiel AUTOMOTIVE
DETROIT -- When it launches in a few weeks, Covisint, the Big Three automakers' joint e-marketplace, will be much more than the automotive version of eBay. Yes, there will be auctions. But while Covisint's business plan spent the summer under a Federal Trade Commission microscope, planners quietly have developed a wide range of tools and services for the megamarketplace.
Think cutting-edge. The centerpiece is a three-dimensional "visualization tool" to let engineers and designers develop and revise automotive components from different facilities around the world at the same time. "It absolutely would be of interest to suppliers," said Mike Suman, group vice president of electronic commerce at Johnson Controls Inc. in Plymouth, Mich. "Everyone would...
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