Automotive Interoperability Cost Study
What is the economic cost due to lack of interoperability in the automotive supply chain?
Conservatively, One Billion Dollars Per Year!
Conducted with NIST Strategic Planning and Economic Assessment Office - March 1999
Similar interoperability costs in aerospace, shipbuilding, construction machinery industries: ~$400M
“450,000 Data Exchanges Per Year”
“as much as 50% of their time dealing with poor data files”