Data Driven Issue 02
THE PRIORITY HAS SHIFTED STEADILY FROM ’13 TO ’14, THOUGH THERE’S STILL AN ENORMOUS
AMOUNT OF ATTENTION NEEDED ON BOTH PROJECTS. THE AVANADE PLANNING TOOLS ENABLE
THIS TO HAPPEN MOST EFFICIENTLY.
CONTINUOUS DUAL DEVELOPMENT
CONTINUED...
AVANADE SOLUTION
Avanade has provided Lotus F1 Team with new software
designed to save time, aid the supply chain, improve
work flow and agility, and make this dual development a
more manageable task with optimal results.
“The main bottle-neck is always the design release into
manufacturing and making sure that is as efficient as
possible. In terms of the numbers of designs being
released, it’s not hundreds or thousands, it’s tens of
thousands of designs throughout the year. Hundreds
every day. We want that process to be slick and concise
so that it doesn’t take design resource, and it’s in this
capacity that I have been working with Avanade mostly,”
explains Adey.
Since the middle of the summer, the priority has shifted
steadily from ’13 to ’14, though there’s still an enormous
amount of attention needed on both projects. The
Avanade planning tools enable this to happen most
efficiently.
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“It is relentless,” declares Adey. “We’re solving reliability
issues between races, which are sure to increase next
year due to the novelty of the systems, and we have the
aerodynamic program on-going that overlays with the
continuous requirement to develop the car. And then, on
the other side, there’s the completely separate 2014
project. Next year will also be a challenge, as there will
be more races and, as I say, more issues to resolve.
Avanade is facilitating this by taking away possible
interruptions in the release mechanism. Any interruption
when you are on such tight deadlines and with such
a large amount of data being processed, can severely
disrupt your race-by-race progress.”