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It is a huge project: by developing the Industrial Cloud, the Volkswagen Group is amalgamating production data from more than 120 factories on a powerful digital platform. The objective: greater efficiency and lower costs. Long-term, the plan is to make suppliers part of the cloud as well, which would increase the benefits of the data exchange. This dossier explains how the development works and what benefits the cloud already yields.

Story: Fully integrated: Volkswagen builds Industrial Cloud for all plants
In Hannover, an app amalgamates the Industrial Cloud data transparently. Jörg Heptner’s aim: a warning system preventing halts in production.

Partnership with AWS and Siemens

Story: Fully integrated: Volkswagen builds Industrial Cloud for all plants

Industrial Cloud to become an app store

Oliver Blume
Chairman of the Volkswagen Group Board of Management and Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG

Examples of where the Industrial Cloud helps:

Story: Fully integrated: Volkswagen builds Industrial Cloud for all plants
At the Emden plant, the Industrial Cloud enables improved quality control during welding. “An algorithm checks that the values meet the standards,” explained project manager Mathias Boomgaarden.
Story: Fully integrated: Volkswagen builds Industrial Cloud for all plants
Jörg Heptner is responsible for implementing the shared data platform at VWN in Hannover. A solution from production of the T6.1 is set to be transferred to more of the Group’s sites this year.
Story: Fully integrated: Volkswagen builds Industrial Cloud for all plants
At Porsche in Leipzig an app helps check labels quickly and accurately.
Story: Fully integrated: Volkswagen builds Industrial Cloud for all plants
Nihar Patel, Executive Vice President New Business Development. His long-term goal: an open marketplace for industrial applications.