Volkswagen and Amazon are teaming up to create a cloud-based industrial digital production platform which the automaker says will transform its manufacturing and logistics processes, officials said today.
The so-called Volkswagen Industrial Cloud will bring together real-time data from all of the Volkswagen Group's 122 manufacturing plants worldwide to manage the overall effectiveness of assembly equipment as well as track parts and vehicles.
Volkswagen, which has a production plant in Chattanooga, will rely upon the breadth and depth of Amazon Web Service's portfolio including machine learning, analytics, and compute services to increase efficiency at the automaker's plants, their uptime, improve production flexibility, and boost vehicle quality, the carmaker said.
"We will continue to strengthen production as a key competitive factor for the Volkswagen Group. Our strategic collaboration with AWS will lay the foundation," says Oliver Blume, chairman of the executive board of Porsche AG and a member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Group responsible for production, in a statement.
VW in January announced plans for an $800 million expansion in Chattanooga to make electric vehicles with an aim to hire 1,000 more workers.
Amazon operates two distribution centers in the Chattanooga area employing several thousand people.