Automotive OEMs’ production capacity and utilization are key indicators not only for the industry but also for the global economy. Access to reliable capacity and utilization forecasts – along with an understanding of their short- and long-term implications – is fundamental to identifying industry growth opportunities and red flags. S&P Global Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicle (MHCV) Plant Capacity Forecast provides information and insights to support you in optimizing planning and investment decisions, maximizing opportunities and minimizing risks, and building winning competitive strategies.
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MHCV Plant Capacity Forecast
Indispensable insight
Automotive industry leaders and influencers use the MHCV Plant Capacity Forecast to:
OEMs
- Assess competitors’ geographic footprint and capacity
- Gauge competitors’ utilization of, and investment in, capacity
- Identify manufacturing partnership opportunities
Suppliers
- Target opportunities for plant retooling
- Formulate tier-1 “just-in-time” co-location strategies
- Assess proximity of supplier capacity to OEM customer production locations
Government agencies
- Understand employment, production capacity, and utilization of domestic MHCV sector over the forecast horizon
Financial institutions
- Evaluate OEMs’ utilization of manufacturing assets and ability to react to market changes
- Assess OEMs’ manufacturing costs and labor union footprint
In-depth analysis on a global scale
The MHCV Plant Capacity Forecast extends the unmatched coverage of our MHCV Production Forecast, spanning across over 500 plants (including completely built up and knocked down plants) in 53 countries with 10 years of history (from calendar year 2010) and a 8-year (current year plus seven years) forecast horizon. It provides analysis on total capacity/utilization by OEM, plant, and region. Fields include:
- Region
- Country/Territory
- Manufacturing group
- Manufacturer
- Labor representation
- Production/Assembly plant
- Plant footprint (latitude and longitude)
- Initial output date
- Shift set-up
- Production volume
- Normalized capacity and utilization (%)
- Straight-time capacity and utilization (%)
- Maximum capacity and utilization (%)
The Plant Capacity Module is updated quarterly. Both history and forecast data are delivered in annual buckets. In addition, a map function is also available in our online business intelligence tool, Autoinsight, to offer a visual analysis on global MHCV production layout.
Experts
Andrej Divis
Members of his team are located in Brazil, mainland China, India, Japan and the United States as well as in Europe. Educated in the United States, he holds a master's degree from The Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's from Georgetown. His spoken languages include English, Czech and German.Andrej brings nearly two decades of automotive and commercial-vehicle industry experience to the role, having begun his career in 2001 as a truck analyst with PlanEcon/Global Insight (now part of S&P Global), covering Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He held a variety of analytical and planning positions with General Motors in Europe starting in 2003. These included assignments in Germany and in Hungary and roles in forecasting; new business development; and product planning. Based in the United States now, Andrej re-joined Automotive in 2012, focusing on the East European and North American truck markets.Recent team efforts have focused on the effects of the COVID pandemic on the commercial-vehicle markets, and on upcoming new-technology rollouts, including the anticipated increased electrification of buses and trucks.
Ewa Root
Global lead of S&P Global's Heavy Commercial Vehicle Sales Forecsting team, overseeing vehicle sales forecast process, looking after analysis of market trends and tracking manufacturer's strategies, ivestment plans and competitive positions. Members of her team, located in China, Brazil, India and Europe, specialize in heavy commercial vehicle forecasting and vehicle segmentation analysis. Ewa has more than 20 years of direct experience in forecasting trends in the automotive industry, having begun her carrier as an automotive analyst with McGraw-Hill/Global Insight (now part of S&P Global).Ewa holds a Master of Science degree in economics from the University of Wroclaw in Poland. She speaks fluent Polish and English.
Antti Lindstrom
His primary responsibility is production forecasts for the three North American markets (United States, Canada, Mexico) including the market intelligence, trends and technical developments across the region.Antti earned a Master's degree at the University of Michigan and a Bachelor's degree at the University of Turku, in Finland. Languages: English, Finnish, German, Swedish.
Christiane Stein
For more than 15 years, Christiane has been looking after forecasts for trucks and buses. She joined the company in mid-2016 and manages the Global Production Forecast for medium and heavy commercial vehicles. This includes OEM intelligence, capacity forecasting, sourcing strategies, and segmentation. Christiane leads a team of analysts located in mainland China, India, South Africa, Brazil, and North America.Prior to joining S&P Global, Christiane worked nearly ten years in the automotive industry. Her work experience includes positions at MAN Truck & Bus AG and BorgWarner Turbo Systems where she forecasted and segmented the global truck, bus, and passenger car markets.Recent team efforts have focused on the effects of the COVID pandemic and component shortages on the commercial-vehicle production. The latest product offering by the team is the MHCV Production Capacity Forecast.Christiane graduated in Business Administration in Leipzig, Germany. Her spoken languages include English, German and Italian.
Jia Li
Jia is responsible for medium and heavy commercial vehicle industry analysis and sales forecast in Greater China. Her expertise includes sales forecast, OEM strategy, market trend, competition analysis, and analysis on industry-related regulation and policy. Before joining S&P Global in July 2011, she worked as senior industry analyst in the Strategy Department of a leading Chinese medium and heavy commercial vehicle OEM. Prior to that, she gained macroeconomics research background when she worked on the trading floor of a world-class fixed asset investment firm.Jia holds an MS degree in Macroeconomics, Finance and Statistics from Humbolt University of Berlin in Germany.
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