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Volkswagen steps up development of Industrial Cloud

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Jörn Roggenbuck
Jörn Roggenbuck
Corporate Communications Spokesperson Volkswagen brand
Maj-Britt Peters
Maj-Britt Peters
Volkswagen Group Communications Corporate Communications | Spokesperson IT & Software
Volkswagen steps up development of Industrial Cloud
  • 18 Volkswagen Group production locations are already to be integrated in 2020
  • Head of Volkswagen Group Production Gerd Walker: “The Industrial Cloud will be a key lever for improving the productivity of plants by 30 percent” 
  • Head of Volkswagen Group Enterprise & Platform Architecture Roy Sauer: “We are making good progress and are now forcing the pace”
  • Cost savings of several billion euros expected with Industrial Cloud in final stage of development

Wolfsburg. The Volkswagen Group is forging ahead with the integration of its plants into the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud. The aim is to further improve the efficiency of the plants and reduce production costs. The first three plants were already linked up in 2019. “In 2020, we intend to bring 15 further plants into the Cloud,” says Gerd Walker, Head of Production of the Volkswagen Group. Work on the project also continued consistently while production was suspended during the coronavirus crisis. “We are making good progress and significantly forcing the pace,” says Roy Sauer, Head of Enterprise & Platform Architecture of the Volkswagen Group. From 2016 to 2025, Volkswagen intends to boost the productivity of its plants by 30 percent and “our Industrial Cloud will be a key lever for achieving this objective,” says Walker. All in all, the Group expects cost savings totaling several billion euros when the data of all 124 plants can be evaluated in a standardized way. The Industrial Cloud is built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Siemens is the integration partner.

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