Five ways to reinvent operations Case study Volkswagen steers German automotive company Volkswagen has Further, benefits could include more efficient launched a digital transformation initiative materials management, optimized machinery toward new value across its United States and Mexico assembly and systems operations and increased savings plants to make its factories more productive, in energy consumption for manufacturing- through digital connected and sustainable. Volkswagen is related processes. Volkswagen’s industrial cloud transformation investing nearly $1 billion up to 2025 in electric can host software applications to reduce mobility and digitization in North America. machine downtime and support predictive The effort involves introducing technologies like maintenance technologies. Cameras with cloud-based industrial software, intelligent machine vision can aid in quality checking robotics and AI to modernize and increase engine components. Collaborative robots manufacturing performance by 30%. support its workforce by performing final inspection checks, inspecting welding patterns This digital transformation effort also and measuring for gap precision in less than a supports skilled labor and prepares minute. An in-house AI tool reduces supervisors’ workers for high-profile jobs for the time spent on planning factory schedules, future. Software, robotics and AI training inputs and employees’ time off. Already, the company says it has seen tangible results ations could enable Volkswagen to optimize i collaboration and enhance the overall and there’s a promise of more value to come. assembly process and workplace environment. enting Enterprise Oper v ein R 17