Volkswagen networked his works with the help of Amazon

Volkswagen wants to work with the US group Amazon increase the productivity in his works. Previously the car maker had announced a partnership with Microsoft.

Volkswagen and Tech giant Amazon standing in front of an in-depth partnership in Cloud services from the Internet. The goal of the “Volkswagen Industrial Cloud”, with the help of Amazon, the machines and equipment of the 122 global works of the auto giants could be networked, shared with Volkswagen on Wednesday. This will help to improve procedures and processes in the manufacturing process to increase the productivity of the plants. In the long term, it is also about the Integration of the global supply chain to go with over 30,000 locations from more than 1500 suppliers and partner companies. The Cloud platform should also be for other car manufacturers are available.

“We will strengthen the production as a competitive factor for the Volkswagen group,” said Porsche chief Oliver flower, which is in the group Board of management for production. Cooperation with the Amazon subsidiary Web Services-creating essential prerequisites for this. On servers in the network, machines and data to and from everywhere and made it accessible to networked. So far, the systems differed in Parts from location to location. The data from all the plants would be passed along, was controlling the flow of material easier and shortages or delivery problems before.

Massive Cost Pressure

Volkswagen is under intense pressure to reduce costs, in order to cope with the high level of investment in electric mobility, new mobility services and self-driving cars. Group chief Herbert Diess to increase the productivity of the works, except in China by 2025 to 30 percent.

Diess said last week at a works meeting in Wolfsburg, VW is “compared to the competition in our factories and in the administration slower and less productive”. He stressed: “We need to make our cars significantly more money to invest in the future. We need leaner, more agile, faster, to the pace of new competitors to keep up.”

The car maker is cooperating with Cloud services with Microsoft, to connect its cars to the full. In another part of This relies on the collaborations, such as the thought-partnership with Ford in the construction of small commercial vehicles.

hb/tko (rtr,dpa)


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