Saving as many lives as possible through its many different automotive safety products is the lone goal of Autoliv. Besides being the world’s largest air bag manufacturer—with 41 percent market share in 2015—Autoliv develops and manufactures passive and active safety systems. The former include modules and components for passenger and driver-side air bags, side-impact air bags, seat belts, steering wheels, safety electronics, whiplash protection and child seats. Active safety systems range from radars and camera-based vision, to brake controls.
Autoliv is a huge company, with more than 80 manufacturing and storage facilities in 29 countries, and nearly 60,000 employees. More than a decade ago, management began focusing on ways to standardize the tools,
production and logistic processes at all European plants. Step one was to implement the Lawson M3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.