VOLKSWAGEN INDUSTRIAL CLOUD – IMPROVED VW?
May, 2020—Volkswagen is not only betting its future on electric cars (we talked about this in our previous blog posts) but it is also working on restructuring its manufacturing processes through the creation of an Industrial Cloud, which is supposed to improve the efficiency of its manufacturing plants and reduce production costs. Initially by 2019 Volkswagen linked 3 plants, but now it plans to expand the project to 15 plants. Volkswagen Industrial Cloud provides standardized ways to collect manufacturing plant data and use the data to provide predictive maintenance information and reduction of vehicle rework through the use of Artificial Intelligence applications. Data from several hundred thousand machines and manufacturing plant items will be recorded by sensors and fed into…