Certificate in Industry Essentials 5.0 — Automotive

Core topics

• Automotive Fundamentals and Terminology
• Planning and Demand Management in the Automotive Sector
• Sourcing, Supplier Selection and Contract Basics
• Supplier Performance, Risk and Continuity
• Cost, Value and Commercial Decision-Making
• Data, Digital Tools and Professional Judgment

1. 

   1.Before There Was Automotive

   • The Patent That Started It All in 1886
   • Ninety Three Minutes on the 1913 Line
   • The Conditions That Had to Come First
   • The Problem the First Cars Were Built to Solve
   • Decisions Made Before Anyone Alive Was Working
   • The Supply Chain Hiding in the Horseless Carriage
2. 

   2.The People Who Built Automotive

   • Henry Ford and the Five Dollar Day
   • Alfred Sloan Invents the Model Year
   • Taiichi Ohno and the Toyota Production System
   • W. Edwards Deming, Ignored at Home
   • The Price Each of Them Paid
   • What the Founders Left for Procurement
3. 

   3.The Catastrophe That Wrote the Automotive Rulebook

   • Every Regulation Is a Scar
   • The Takata Airbag and Tens of Millions of Cars
   • The Sub Tier Supplier Nobody Could See
   • Reading the Rulebook Backward
   • Why Arbitrary Rules Usually Are Not
   • The Map Carmakers Wish They Had Drawn
4. 

   4.What Automotive Got Spectacularly Right

   • The Achievement Worth Studying: Just in Time
   • Emptying the Factory Floor of Inventory
   • Forcing an Ecosystem to Become Reliable
   • Why It Is Harder Than It Looks
   • What the Industry Can Do When It Decides To
   • The Supplier Discipline Behind the Miracle
5. 

   5.Automotive: Booms, Busts and Absurdities

   • The Post War Motorization Boom
   • The Oil Shocks Change Everything
   • The Quality Reckoning When Japan Arrived
   • The Edsel and the Pinto Memo
   • Why Car Colors Follow Fashion Cycles
   • Every Fossil Was Once a Sourcing Decision
6. 

   6.Follow the Money in Automotive

   • What the Industry Actually Sells
   • Deep Multi Tier Supplier Networks
   • The Cost Base of a Typical Carmaker
   • Fixed Against Variable, Bought Against Made
   • Where the Margin Actually Sits
   • The Economics Behind Behavior That Looks Irrational
7. 

   7.Automotive From One End to the Other

   • From Product Development to the Showroom
   • Tiered Component Supply and Assembly
   • Logistics, Dealers and the Aftermarket
   • Where the Chain Jams
   • The Handoffs That Cause the Trouble
   • The Moving Line Between Make and Buy
8. 

   8.The Automotive Supply Base and Everyone in the Room

   • Everyone in the Room
   • Who Holds Power Over Whom
   • What the Sector Buys and Moves
   • Batteries, Electronics and Tooling
   • Just in Sequence Into a Fixed Line Rate
   • Concentrated or Fragmented, and How Easily Replaced
9. 

   9.Commercial and Data Norms in Automotive

   • How Deals Are Actually Structured
   • Lifetime of Model and the Annual Price Down
   • Tooling Amortization and Index Pass Through
   • The Standards the Industry Runs On
   • When the Data Formats Do Not Agree
   • Cyber Exposure as Supply Risk
10. 

    10.The Automotive Rulebook and Its Enforcers

    • Type Approval and Homologation
    • IATF 16949 and the Quality Rulebook
    • Recalls, Emissions and Recycled Content
    • Who Inspects and Who Can Shut You Down
    • A Fine or a Criminal File
    • Compliance That Flows Down the Supply Base
11. 

    11.The People Who Do the Work in Automotive

    • Who Works in the Sector
    • The Career Paths and Where They Lead
    • Qualifications That Carry Weight
    • The Ethical Pressure Points
    • Reskilling the Assembly Workforce
    • The Procurement Talent the Turn Demands
12. 

    12.What Is Industry 5.0, and What Does It Mean for Automotive?

    • What the European Commission Set Out
    • The Three Values After Efficiency
    • What Industry 4.0 Left Out
    • Where the Three Land Unevenly
    • The Value Automotive Was Trained to Neglect
    • Why the Chain Decides Which Value Wins
13. 

    13.Robots, Algorithms and People in Automotive

    • Together, Not in Succession
    • Where Machines Carry the Repetition
    • Where People Carry the Judgment
    • A Boundary Designed, Not Discovered
    • The Constraint Electrification Imposes
    • The Sourcing Decisions Machines Still Cannot Make
14. 

    14.What the Machines Are Actually Doing in Automotive

    • Forecasting Demand and Aftermarket Parts
    • Vision Inspection on the Quality Line
    • Supplier Risk Sensing
    • Generative Design and Sourcing Analytics
    • Deployed Capability Versus Vendor Projection
    • The Sourcing an Agent Now Runs Alone
15. 

    15.The Bill Arrives: The Automotive Environmental Account

    • The Account Coming Due
    • Where the Battery Materials Come From
    • Recycled Content and End of Life Recovery
    • Scope 3 and the Supplier's Carbon
    • Regulated, Demanded, or Still Voluntary
    • How Fast the Voluntary Column Empties
16. 

    16.Built to Bend: Resilience in Automotive

    • Protecting a Fixed Line Rate
    • The Sub Tier Failure Nobody Sees Coming
    • Efficiency Against the Capacity to Absorb
    • Who Is Entitled to Make the Call
    • Usually Nobody, Until It Is Too Late
    • Resilience as a Procurement Decision
17. 

    17.Who Actually Decides in Automotive?

    • Bought Out Content Is Most of the Cost
    • The Decision Taken at Design Freeze
    • One Sourcing Decision, Followed All the Way
    • Its Effect on Cost, Risk and Compliance
    • How Few People Were in the Room
    • Why Procurement Owns the Model's Margin
18. 

    18.In Automotive, the Chain Is the Business

    • When the Chain Is the Production Line
    • Any Deviation Is a Stoppage
    • One Flow Decision, Followed Through
    • Service, Working Capital and Continuity
    • Reputation Made and Lost in the Flow
    • Why the Chain, Not the Car, Is the Business
19. 

    19.What Automotive Now Requires, and Why Depth Wins

    • Managing Risk Below Tier One
    • Batteries and Electronics, Not Just Steel
    • What the Job Now Demands
    • The Distance Between Then and Now
    • Why Sector Depth Beats General Competence
    • The Knowledge That Walks Out the Door
20. 

    20.An Honest Look at Your Own Automotive Operation

    • A Self Assessment Against the Three Values
    • Semiconductor and Battery Dependence
    • The Failures Invisible at Tier One
    • Tooling Concentration and Cost Per Minute
    • Where Your Automation Boundary Sits
    • The Readiness View You Take Back
21. 

    20 modules, 60 guided hours, 92 case studies, mastering the journey from parts to production line through supply chain, sourcing, and procurement.