How Valeo is creating major change as a result of digital technology

How does a French automotive supplier become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of the ‘connected car’ in this digital age when there are another thirty thousand new companies also trying to reinvent products, practices and markets in the automobile industry? This is a part of history which is taking place at Valeo: it is accompanied by its unfailing industrial excellence and enthusiastic R&D (research and development) investments which today have made the former subcontractor the leading patent filer in France. Valeo sees the digital challenge as an opportunity to improve industrial performance, but above all to extend the company’s activity to new types of products, new clients and new business models. As far as Valeo is concerned, this digital transformation is based on an unusual marketing position which includes having expert knowledge of both the hardware and the software and data.