About Automobil Produktion

Automobil Produktion

AUTOMOBIL PRODUKTION is the industry business magazine for the automotive and automotive-supplier industry, published in Landsberg am Lech by the Verlag Moderne Industrie GmbH. With the subtitle "Entwicklung, Fertigung, Logistik" (development, manufacturing, logistics), it addresses the industry's managers and decision-makers with exclusive information on OEM strategies, the latest trends in the supplier market, and new procurement methods — alongside management know-how, HR topics, legal and financial questions, and the research findings shaping construction, development and production technology. Documented in the journal databases since 2000 (ISSN 0934-0394), the magazine operates as a sister publication of Automotive Manufacturing Solutions (AMS), the international production title — a partnership visible in joint special editions such as the Smart Factory edition for the Hannover Messe, published in English for the fair's global audience. With its TOP 100 automotive-supplier ranking, its iPad kiosk, newsletters and whitepapers, AUTOMOBIL PRODUKTION serves as the German automotive industry's business magazine.

Overview

The automotive industry's business side — distinct from the engineering and the retail — is where strategies are decided: the OEMs' platform and sourcing strategies, the suppliers' positioning as system suppliers, the procurement methods, the factory investments, and the management of the transformation. AUTOMOBIL PRODUKTION addresses this world as the "Branchen-Wirtschaftsmagazin" — the industry business magazine — with a program that is informative, varied and competent: the technological advances and the latest technology developments presented in a professionally sound way, the exclusive OEM-strategy information and the valuable background knowledge, the supplier-market trends and the market developments with their analyses and interpretations of corporate strategies.

The editorial mix follows the industry's business calendar. The strategy coverage examines the OEMs and suppliers: the platform strategies, the system-supplier positioning (the suppliers who no longer just work for the manufacturers but support them on a grand scale), and the winners-and-losers analyses. The TOP 100 automotive suppliers ranking — published in the 3/2024 issue with the economic ranking, the future perspectives, the opportunities and risks assessed by market experts, and the detailed company data from employee numbers to revenues — is the industry's indispensable reference tool. The production coverage addresses the smart factory: digital twins, predictive maintenance, paperless processes, the IT/OT interplay — the Hannover Messe special edition's themes, with the exclusive interviews (SEAT's production chief on the digital double) that characterize the brand. The procurement, HR, legal and financial coverage serves the management functions: the purchasing methods, the value-adding measures, the human-resources topics, and the regulatory questions.

History

AUTOMOBIL PRODUKTION grew from the Verlag Moderne Industrie's automotive publishing — the Landsberg-based technical publisher (Justus-von-Liebig-Straße 1, 86899 Landsberg am Lech) whose portfolio serves the industrial management. Documented from the year 2000 in the journal records, the magazine established itself as the German-language business magazine for the automotive industry: the title the industry's managers read for the strategies behind the engineering — the OEM decisions, the supplier-market movements, and the production investments.

The magazine's development tracks the automotive industry's business transformations: the 2000s globalization and the supplier industry's consolidation, the platform-strategy era, the 2010s premium boom and the diesel crisis, and the 2020s transformation — electrification, the software-defined vehicle, the Chinese competition, and the supply-chain restructurings. The digital transformation added the iPad kiosk (the NewsFlip with the portal's latest news, the individual issues downloadable with backgrounds and exclusive interviews), the newsletters, the whitepapers and the online portal — the cross-media extensions around the print core. The partnership with Automotive Manufacturing Solutions — the Ultima Media production title — made AUTOMOBIL PRODUKTION the German sister publication in the international production-media network, with joint special editions such as the Smart Factory edition for the Hannover Messe (published in English for the international fair audience). Through these changes, the Landsberg publishing operation maintained the magazine's positioning: the industry's business magazine, where the strategies are analyzed.

Coverage and Content

Each issue's program follows the automotive industry's business agenda. The OEM-strategy coverage provides the exclusive information: the manufacturers' platform and sourcing strategies, the production-network decisions, and the strategic interviews — the conversations with the industry's technology and production chiefs that reveal the thinking behind the announcements. The supplier-market coverage tracks the industry's restructuring: the TOP 100 ranking with its economic data, the system-supplier strategies, the winners and losers, and the market experts' opportunity-and-risk assessments.

The production and technology coverage addresses the factory's transformation: the smart-factory developments — digital twins for production planning, AI for error detection and predictive maintenance, the paperless processes from clipboard to tablet, the digital and data skills for employees — and the construction-and-development trends from research and science. The procurement coverage treats the purchasing methods and the value-adding measures; the management coverage the innovation and process know-how; the HR coverage the industry's talent questions; and the legal and financial coverage the regulatory and financing framework. The special editions — such as the Hannover Messe Smart Factory edition — provide the focused deep-dives for the industry's events. The newsletters, whitepapers and the job market extend the brand into the services the industry's managers use.

Organization and Ownership

AUTOMOBIL PRODUKTION is published by the Verlag Moderne Industrie GmbH of Landsberg am Lech (Justus-von-Liebig-Straße 1, 86899 Landsberg) — the technical publisher whose automotive title serves the industry's management. The editorial team combines automotive business journalists with the industry's managers, strategists and researchers as contributors — the expert network that gives the magazine its exclusive information and its analytical depth, and whose boardroom access keeps the strategy coverage ahead of the press releases. The partnership with Automotive Manufacturing Solutions (Ultima Media) connects the title to the international production-media network.

Commercially, the magazine follows the B2B industry-press model: subscriptions from the automotive industry's companies (with the print subscription's single-seat digital license and the pay-per-view article access via the Genios database, documented since 2000), advertising from the industry's suppliers — the production-equipment vendors, the engineering service providers, the IT and software companies, the logistics providers whose customers are the industry's managers — plus the special-edition, newsletter and whitepaper revenues. The audience — the automotive and supplier industry's managers and decision-makers — is the industry's concentrated business readership. The ISSN 0934-0394 identifies the title in the journal databases.

Digital Presence

The magazine's digital home is automobil-produktion.de, carrying the industry news flow (with its sections for suppliers, markets, newsletter, whitepapers, quarterly figures and the robotics industry), the issue presentations, and the subscription services — the continuous coverage between the print issues. The portal's international automotive news extends the German coverage to the global industry the German managers operate in. The newsletters deliver the news selection to the industry's inboxes.

The iPad kiosk extends the print issues into the tablet: the NewsFlip with the portal's latest reports, the individual issues with their backgrounds and exclusive interviews downloadable, the always-current automotive-industry information in the kiosk form. The whitepapers provide the in-depth content marketing, and the job market the industry's career exchange. On social media, the brand maintains channels for news distribution. After more than two decades — from the 2000 documentation through the digital transformation to the AMS sister-publication partnership — AUTOMOBIL PRODUKTION operates as the automotive industry's business-magazine platform: the print magazine for the curated strategy reading, the portal and kiosk for the news flow, and the special editions for the industry's events — the Branchen-Wirtschaftsmagazin for the managers who decide the industry's strategies, in print, online and on the tablet, issue after issue, year after year.