Epicor Manufacturing Insights: Episode 2 - Enhancing Operations

Epicor Kinetic

Find out how Epicor enables teamwork for Scuderia AlphaTauri drivers and engineers.

Industry: Manufacturing
Video Type: Success Story
Duration: 2:19

During the race, any part of the car can run a specific number of kilometers and no more.

We must not forget a Formula One car, there are many, many pieces in them and we have to take care for all of them.

During the year, our engineers decide what part do we want to develop more than others. And it depends not only on the track, but also on the part available on track. So you have to make a match between the stock level that you need on the car.

So what we will do is we work seven days on seven, three shifts, night shifts, and every time we are ready to react and to reply to all the requests we receive from the track side.

F1 is very much a team sport, way more than what people think. You can't win a world championship if everybody is not working well together, so communication is extremely important.

In the past, it was always very complicated to get really everything together. For example, a wishbone, how many miles does it have? when is the lifetime finished? And now with Epicor after each run, they put in the figures and they get immediately a result which tells them, okay change the part or the part can stay in the car.

After each single race, we check on each single serial number if it has the number of kilometers that it can run or the number of kilometers that needs a service on, we check this kind of information within Kinetic and then operations gets the part, they do the service or they change it if it is needed. So at the end, we can choose the best piece to be fitted on the car.

Teamwork is really important. I really always enjoy how the car and the teams are developing race by race and getting stronger race by race.