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Automotive

Automotive production: Operation and optimization

Achieve operational excellence and keep improving and optimizing how you produce in a closed-loop. Quickly adjust to changes in demand or product variations to provide a smooth and effective production flow among the shops.

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Agile, quality, sustainable auto manufacturing

The automotive market is becoming increasingly diversified as a wide variety of vehicle variants leads to significant changes in production processes. Different customer segments have different expectations regarding electrification and prioritize a diverse range of car features. This rising complexity in automotive production requires flexibility, scalability, faster time to market and sustainability in shopfloor operations.

Why optimize automotive manufacturing production today?

By leveraging cutting-edge technology, you will be able to compress development timelines, improve flexibility and achieve a faster speed to market, ensuring maximum value for your investment and staying ahead in the competitive automotive industry landscape.

Faster project acceptance

Reduce device variety and number by converting applications to software and achieve faster, more robust and flexible production. (Audi)

Reduced time to market

Develop a scalable greenfield factory in less than two years and build a fully digital factory 50 percent faster than usual.

Improved design data accuracy

Meet global strategic plans and reduce new vehicle development cycles while improving quality and maintaining brand reputation. (BYD Auto Company Limited)

Flexible, efficient, sustainable automotive production

Next-gen automation: standardization, disruptive tech for flexible production. Data quality, predictive maintenance, digital workforce ensure efficiency. Flexible shop floor orchestration cuts deployment. Smart energy management & tech drive sustainable, eco-friendly production.

Robotic arms working on a vehicle assembly line in an automated automotive plant

Next level automation

  • Leveraging cutting-edge technologies: digital twin, virtualization, software-defined control and AI
  • Focusing on standardization: use of scalable, reusable technologies like auto code generation of templates, libraries and blueprints to standardize processes and applications
Robotic arm being calibrated by a worker using MES software inside a smart manufacturing factory

Data driven quality systems

  • Capture production quality data in real-time
  • Prevent quality issues by automated adjustments before they occur
  • Decrease manual inspections through process monitoring
  • Use performance analytics and detect anomalies
Two engineers discussing operational analytics on a tablet next to am automated assembly line

Predictive maintenance

  • Implement monitoring of quality and equipment performance
  • Apply AI technologies to analyze production data
  • Guide maintenance staff to solve issues proactively
An engineer reviewing operational analytics of a robotic arm in a smart manufacturing facility

Digital enabled workforce

  • Facilitate a digital workforce through new training methods
  • Implement digitalized training based on a "learning by doing"
  • Benefit from virtual and interactive learning environments
Cars being assembled on an automated assembly line in a smart manufacturing factory

Flexible shopfloor orchestration

  • Orchestrate flexibly different assets like robots, AGVs, machines and conveyors vendor-independently
  • Manage updates for security and operating systems centrally for the entire asset landscape in production
A laptop displaying energy management analytics on a table in a green production facility

Efficient green production

  • Integrate advanced energy management to identify energy saving potentials
  • Implement smart technologies to save unnecessary energy consumption and reduce CO2 impact
  • Utilize data across the entire supply chain to gain transparency on carbon footprint and mitigate risks
The virtual PLC represents a revolution in automation engineering and industry, making it possible to totally rethink a factory and its infrastructure.
Sven Müller, Project Manager Edge Cloud 4 Production, Audi

Frequently asked questions

Publications

Ebook | Sustainable, efficient green production.White paper | How automotive manufacturing is shifting gearsBlog | How to add flexibility and efficiency to automotive manufacturing with advanced automation

Success stories

Success story | Volkswagen Autoeuropa: Can a Real-Time Locating System teach automated vehicles to see traffic lights?

Press releases

Press release | Ford Motor Company: Siemens unveils breakthrough in automation technology with new Simatic Workstation

Press release | Volkswagen Group: Siemens supports Volkswagen to develop digitized electric car production