Siemens will create an industrial cloud platform for Volkswagen

2020: Plans of creation of the industry platform for 122 plants

The company Siemens will act as the integration partner in the project of group Volkswagen (VW) on creation of the industry cloud Volkswagen Industrial Cloud platform. It became known on October 5, 2020. This solution will connect in a single network 122 plants of group worldwide. 11 suppliers – in addition to Siemens participate in start of this large-scale industrial cloud, the group of technologies of automation ABB, the supplier of automotive components of Dürr, the producer software Celonis, specialists work on it on to data storage Teradata.

Range of software applications and services which partners of VW will add to the industrial VW platform big. Algorithms of artificial intelligence which calculate enter it and distributes the need for the pilotless transport systems for internal logistics of the company, the software for optimization of intervals of maintenance of machines and also many other things. At the first stage of the project until the end of 2020 to the platform it is going to connect 18 European platforms.

Siemens together with suppliers of machines and the equipment will open for all partners access to applications of the MindSphere platform in a cloud. In addition to applications and tools of the MindSphere platform, industrial solutions for peripheral calculations will be also created. At such approach production data are processed directly on site, in production process, and already then are transferred to an industrial cloud. It will allow to optimize in addition difficult processes and to improve quality of data in a cloud.

Thanks to experience of Siemens and opportunities MindSphere Volkswagen will be able to manage the production environment and a supply chain even more effectively as suppliers and equipment manufacturers of an ecosystem of Volkswagen will also be connected to a single platform. It will allow them to communicate and will give additional effect at the expense of industrial data.

Given which we collect in an industrial cloud can be more effective only thanks to intellectual algorithms and software applications, - Nikhar Patel, the head of strategic projects of VW says. – Our purpose - to make the cloud created in partnership with Siemens and other suppliers, "app store" for the enterprises. As a result we are going to increase considerably performance, and our partners will be able to scale the applications and by that to optimize business processes. As a result all win.