Audi putting a centralized server solution into test operation in cycle-dependent production; edge solution gets rid of individual PCs
Summary
With this Edge Cloud 4 Production local server solution, Audi is initiating a paradigm shift in automation technology. If the server infrastructure continues to operate reliably, Audi wants to roll out this automation technology for serial production throughout the entire Volkswagen Group. The crucial advantage of Edge Cloud 4 Production is that countless industrial PCs can be replaced along with their input and output devices and no longer need to be individually maintained. Together with the experts from the P-Lab, the IT managers around Christoph Hagmüller, the Head of IT Services at Audi in Neckarsulm and co-manager for Production IT in the Böllinger Höfe, are rolling out the new solution. With its comparatively low unit and cycle numbers, the Böllinger Höfe is ideally suited to functioning as a real lab for testing the new concept in series production.