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European Network Exchange

ENX Association
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Formation June 14, 2000; 16 years ago (2000-06-14)
Type Association in line with French law (non-Profit)
Location
Members
15
Managing director
Lennart Oly
President
Clive Johnson (Ford)
Vice President
Philippe Ludet (Renault SAS)
Treasurer
Nadine Buisson-Chavot (GALIA)
Website www.enx.com

The ENX Association is an association of European vehicle manufacturers, suppliers and organisations.

The ENX Association, which was founded in 2000 is an association according to the French law of 1901. Its headquarters are in Boulogne-Billancourt (France) and Frankfurt am Main. The 15 members of the association, which are all also represented on the so-called ENX board, are Audi, BMW, Bosch, Continental, Daimler, DGA, Ford, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault, Volkswagen as well as the automotive associations ANFAC (Spain), GALIA (France), SMMT (UK) and VDA (Germany). The association can decide to accept additional members upon request; however, the association rules state that the total number of members is limited.

The ENX Association is a non-profit organisation that acts as a legal and organisational roof for the ENX network standard. It provides the participating companies with a platform for the exchange of information and for the initiation of pre-competitive project cooperations in the field of information technology. The main drive behind the German and French industries creating the standard was to protect intellectual property while at the same time reducing costs and complexity concerning data exchange within the automotive industry.

One cited benefit of the creation of a "Trusted Community" for branches of industry is that, although companies protect their own infrastructures, problems occur in cases where encryption or authentication solutions are used across different companies and yet should be acknowledged as confidential. An impasse is often reached when both sides seek to implement their own mechanisms, if not before. This is demonstrated by the example of email encryption, with the clash of safety regulations in view of shared application use and thousands of unencrypted data connections. A shared, confidential infrastructure provides a remedy here. Ford cites the use of ENX to communicate with suppliers as an example of how considerable savings can be made through consolidation and standardisation.


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