Build a safer, smarter, and more efficient automotive operation
Gain the visibility you need to improve safety, performance, and decision-making across your automotive operations.
Intelligent Automotive Operations
A unified solution for automotive workflows
Automotive production environments must balance speed, safety, and reliability. Teams move quickly between production floors and internal parts-handling zones and often manage mixed fleets, complex workflows, and strict compliance tasks. Manual processes and isolated systems create blind spots that make consistent performance difficult to achieve.
Powerfleet provides a connected view of your people, equipment, and daily operations. Real-time insights support safer workflows, more reliable material movement, and stronger process control across your entire automotive site.
Key Automotive Challenges
Solving key challenges in automotive operations
Automotive sites face constant pressure to improve safety, maintain compliance, and prevent costly equipment failures while keeping material movement running smoothly. High traffic areas, fast cycle times, and mixed fleets create operational blind spots. Powerfleet’s AI-driven insights help identify risks, reduce inefficiencies, and support more consistent performance across production and material handling areas.
Labour shortages and efficiency pressures
Automotive operations often rely on new or temporary workers who must learn equipment and workflows quickly. Powerfleet supports safer performance with access control, behaviour monitoring, and AI insights that highlight coaching needs. These capabilities help maintain productivity even when staffing levels fluctuate.
Pedestrian safety in active environments
Production floors and internal logistics areas have frequent interaction between people and moving equipment. Powerfleet uses AI-assisted proximity alerts to warn operators in real time. These insights support safer navigation, reduce collision risks, and help protect both people and assets.
Regulatory and safety compliance complexity
Automotive facilities must maintain accurate inspections, operator certifications, and safety records. Powerfleet automates checklists, documents equipment usage, and controls access based on training. These capabilities improve audit readiness and help standardise compliance procedures across each site.
Unplanned equipment downtime challenges
Automotive plants span large, complex facilities, making it difficult to track equipment health, schedule service, and detect early signs of wear. Powerfleet delivers real-time performance, usage, and location data to predict maintenance needs, improve scheduling accuracy, and reduce unplanned downtime and operational cost across critical workflows.
Disparate data and mixed fleet complexity
Automotive sites operate diverse vehicles and equipment from multiple OEMs. Powerfleet unifies data from every asset into a single platform. This connected view improves resource planning, supports consistent performance, and gives leaders reliable insights for decision-making.
Proven Success In Automotive Operations
Global automotive supplier optimises fleet and strengthens safety
Kautex gains unified control across global facilities
Kautex, one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers operating across 30+ facilities in 13 countries, implemented Powerfleet’s On-Site solutions to strengthen safety and optimise fleet utilisation.
Starting at its Detroit facility, Kautex reduced fleet size by over 10%, saving more than $10,000 annually per vehicle eliminated. Encouraged by these results, the company rapidly expanded to eight locations across six countries and three continents within just over a year.
AI-Powered Intelligence
Solutions that strengthen automotive operations
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Safety & prevention
Strengthen safety across production floors and internal parts-handling areas with AI-driven hazard detection, operator monitoring, and controlled vehicle access. Powerfleet alerts operators to risks in real time and provides behavioural insights that support targeted coaching and safer material movement. Automated event capture and detailed safety data help you understand what happened, why it happened, and how to prevent future incidents. These capabilities build a stronger safety culture and reduce the likelihood of collisions, equipment damage, and liability exposure.
Maintenance insights
Reduce downtime across your automotive equipment fleet with real-time visibility into asset condition, usage, and performance. Powerfleet’s AI-powered analytics detect early signs of wear, abnormal behaviour, and utilisation patterns that indicate emerging maintenance needs. This proactive approach supports better service planning, helps prevent unplanned failures, and extends equipment lifespan. By basing maintenance on actual usage rather than fixed schedules, automotive teams keep production and material movement running smoothly while optimising service costs.
Compliance automation
Automate safety and regulatory compliance across your facility with digital inspections, operator certification tracking, and controlled equipment access. Powerfleet ensures only qualified personnel operate equipment and standardises pre-shift and pre-operation procedures. Automated checklists and real-time documentation simplify audits and improve accuracy. AI-assisted monitoring adds another layer of protection by identifying unsafe behaviour or missed steps. These tools help you maintain consistent compliance and reduce the risk of violations or safety-related disruptions across your automotive operation.
Fleet visibility
Gain a clear, unified view of all material handling equipment regardless of OEM. Powerfleet consolidates safety, performance, and utilisation data into one platform, helping you monitor operator behaviour, equipment condition, inspections, and impact events. Real-time insights improve incident investigations, help allocate resources more effectively, and support standardised operations across production and logistics areas. With complete visibility, automotive teams can respond faster, coordinate better, and maintain consistent operational performance.
Resource utilisation
Optimise internal logistics and production support with AI-driven insights that highlight utilisation trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement. Powerfleet identifies underused assets, high-demand areas, and workflow inefficiencies, helping you balance workloads and right-size your fleet. These insights improve material flow between production lines and internal parts-handling areas, reduce idle time, and support smoother operations across your automotive site.
Operational intelligence
Improve decision-making across your automotive site with AI-powered insights that reveal operational patterns, performance trends, and workflow bottlenecks. Powerfleet analyses data from equipment, operators, and daily processes to show where delays occur, why incidents happen, and how to improve internal movement. These insights support continuous improvement, strengthen coordination between production and parts-handling areas, and help teams maintain consistent performance across every shift. The result is smoother operations, fewer interruptions, and more efficient use of people and equipment.
Advanced Solutions For Automotive Operations
Powering efficiency across automotive facilities
Strengthen safety and compliance across your automotive production and parts-handling environments with real-time visibility into every vehicle and operator. Powerfleet’s AI-powered solutions help automotive teams reduce downtime, prevent incidents, and optimise material movement.
Advanced Solutions For Automotive Operations
Powering efficiency across automotive facilities
Strengthen safety and compliance across your automotive production and parts-handling environments with real-time visibility into every vehicle and operator. Powerfleet’s AI-powered solutions help automotive teams reduce downtime, prevent incidents, and optimise material movement.
Forklift Gateway: Complete fleet management
Wireless tracking and management for industrial vehicles with access control, safety checks, and performance monitoring in one integrated solution.
Pedestrian Proximity Detection: AI-powered safety
Advanced AI vision system that prevents accidents by detecting pedestrians and alerting operators to potential hazards in real-time.
Digital Video Recorder: Comprehensive monitoring
Continuous video recording with event-triggered clips for comprehensive documentation of operations, incidents, and operator behaviour.
Unity platform: End-to-end intelligence
Unified data platform that ingests information from any source, delivering actionable insights through a single pane of glass.
Driving Safer, Smarter Automotive Operations
Key benefits for automotive production environments
Improve workplace safety
Enhance safety across production floors and parts-handling areas with AI-powered detection, operator behaviour monitoring, and controlled vehicle access.
Reduce equipment downtime
Maintain smooth production by identifying early signs of equipment stress, abnormal usage, or potential failure. Predictive insights help you schedule maintenance before issues escalate.
Strengthen compliance processes
Meet safety and operational regulations with automated checklists, operator certification tracking, and complete digital documentation. Ensure only authorised personnel use equipment.
Increase operational visibility
Powerfleet helps identify bottlenecks, optimise internal logistics, and maintain consistent performance across production lines and parts-handling operations.
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