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Artificial intelligence arrives in production

How does AI work in manufacturing practice? Around 120 experts discussed this at the "Automobil Industrie" Smart Factory Day.

"Artificial intelligence is like a teenager. You never know what's going to happen and whether you need to worry," said Gerhard Keller, Head of Auto & Industry Germany at Google Cloud - and earned some smiles from the 120 or so participants at Smart Factory Day 2024 in Karlsruhe. But the congress also showed that AI in automotive production is getting serious - almost across the board, from quality assurance, process planning and logistics to securing the supply chain.
Read more on www.automobil-industrie.vogel.de (in German)

Overview of the Smart Factory Day 2024 programme

We thank our partners and exhibitors at the Smart Factory Day 2024 in Karlsruhe

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This was the Smart Factory Day 2023 at Audi in Ingolstadt

Sustainable production, sensible digitalisation: At the Smart Factory Day 2023 in Ingolstadt, around 110 production experts exchanged views on the smart factory. The keynote address was given by Jörg Spindler, Head of Manufacturing Engineering at Audi. Spindler went into detail about Audi's "360factory" and described individual functions in his keynote.

"Digitalisation is not an end in itself," Spindler said at the beginning, "but a component of economic efficiency. You can do a lot, but it has to make sense." Read more on www.automobil-industrie.vogel.de (in German)

We thank our partners at the Smart Factory Day 2023 in Ingolstadt

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This was the Smart Factory Day 2022 at Porsche in Leipzig

Porsche Leipzig was the venue for the 6th Smart Factory Day of "Automobil Industrie". The most important insight: People remain important, but are given other tasks in a digital factory.

"Make things as simple as possible, then they won't break" - that makes sense; and yet it's not easy to implement. Henning Löser is head of the Audi Production Lab. In his keynote speech at the Smart Factory Day in Leipzig, he described what "as simple as possible" means in the smart production environment at Audi. Read more on www.automobil-industrie.vogel.de (in German)

We thank our partners at the Smart Factory Day 2022 in Leipzig

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Digitalised manufacturing: How do I implement it and which concepts do exist?

"One hundred per cent digitalised does not mean one hundred per cent automated," said Mercedes production board member Jörg Burzer before the factory tour in Factory 56. Beforehand, promising approaches of a smart factory were shown.

Digital, flexible, high-quality and with motivated employees: at the Smart Factory Day, production experts discussed what networked manufacturing should look like; and what the path to it might look like. Read more on www.automobil-industrie.vogel.de (in German)

We thank our partners at the Smart Factory Day 2022 in Böblingen

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Approaches for the change to the smart factory

From the "shop floor" to the "top floor": Markus Wambach, partner of the management and IT consultancy MHP, gave a lecture at the Smart Factory Day on the networking of production and how smart ecosystems are created from it. "It's not just about using new technologies," said Wambach. "The employees must be able to live the topic." According to Wambach, it is important that the management controls the change. Read more on www.automobil-industrie.vogel.de (in German)

Smart factory: "Sticking plaster" is no longer enough

Smart technology alone does not make a smart factory possible - the right approach is important. What this means at Porsche was described by Albrecht Reimold, Porsche's Board Member for Production, at the Smart Factory Day. Read more on www.automobil-industrie.vogel.de (in German)