Lalit Patil is a Consulting Architect in Product Development at Ford Motor Company, with extensive experience leading transformation and modernization initiatives across Product Development, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Environmental and Safety Compliance.
His expertise includes product lifecycle management, data-centric architecture, enterprise integration, and Bill of Materials systems. He has led major BOM software initiatives, supported enterprise platform migrations to Google Cloud, and helped establish standards-based architectures. Previously, he worked as a PLM Consultant and held research and teaching positions in Design and Manufacturing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
