All digitization articles
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ArticleŠkoda deploys drone for stocktaking and logistics
Skoda is testing drones for inventory management Škoda is testing the use of autonomous drones for stocktaking at its factory in Mladá Boleslav, Czechia. The drone is detecting, identifying and counting empty containers outside the factory from above, three times a day, and the data it collects ...
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ArticleBASF launches digital platform for visualizing paint colours, digitised Lean Lab concept
Image: BASF Coatings BASF Coatings is launching Auroom, a digital platform for automotive designers to map paint colours onto their models and visualize their appearance and effects. This is said to give a realistic impression of colour proposals at an early stage of the design process, including the ...
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ArticlePartner ecosystems or going it alone? Auto executive study identifies digital strategy split
Image: Shutterstock.com There are major inconsistencies in automotive industry digital strategy – but also major opportunities, reports a global study by BearingPoint, a management and technology consultancy (developed from the former KPMG and Arthur Andersen consultancies). The research, carried out March-April 2018 included the survey of 90 automotive ...
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ArticleCapgemini Invent launches Smart Mobility Connect service for digital transformation
Image: Capgemini InventCapgemini Invent, a digital consulting division of the global Capgemini group, is launching a consultancy service which promises to help automotive OEMs accelerate digitization across their business, identify new opportunities, and increase customer satisfaction.Smart Mobility Connect leverages strategy, technology, design, data analytics and artificial intelligence in three ...
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ArticleAudi wins Red Dot and German design awards for digital planning tool, implements Virtual Reality Software Development Kit and applications will be rolled out into wider VW Group
Audi digital planning assistant recognised with Red Dot Design Award and German Design Award NewAudi SDK developed in partnership with Munich start-up Innoactive SDK to be integrated by the end of 2018 into wider Volkswagen Group VR platform, the Digital Reality Hub Audi has won a Red Dot Design ...
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ArticleBMW builds Driving Simulation Centre in Munich
Image: BMWBMW is investing around €100 million in a new driving simulation facility at its FIZ Research and Innovation Centre, Munich. It describes this as to be the world’s most advanced of its kind, and says it will enable virtual testing of advanced assistance systems and display and control ...
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ArticleMcKinsey: Six recommendations for Tier One digital transformation
Image: McKinsey Consultancy firm McKinsey&Company has come up with a series of recommendations for successful digital transformation for Tier One automotive suppliers, noting that most in this sector have only recently started to develop new digital products, services and processes. It warns that, for example, scaling-up transformative measures ...
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ArticleVolkswagen investing €3.5 billion into digital transformation, stresses role of software
We Share launch in BerlinImage: VolkswagenVolkswagen has confirmed an investment of over €3.5 billion into a digitization initiative to 2025. At a press conference in Berlin, executives outlined the strategy and a series of measures to speed up the development of its digital ecosystem.Jürgen Stackmann, Volkswagen brand board member, ...
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ArticleMcKinsey survey: Manufacturers struggle with digitalization efforts
Image: McKinsey Few companies have realized the full potential of digitization of manufacturing at a large scale, a survey by the McKinsey & Company management consultancy has found. Its fourth annual Digital Manufacturing Global Expert study claims that while 92% of the respondents from firms around the world ...
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ArticleChina's GAC orders 430 Kuka robots plus cloud platform
Image: Kuka AG Automated systems supplier Kuka, based in Augsburg, Germany, has taken an order from Chinese automaker GAC NE (New Energy) for 430 industrial robots. These will be deployed to build electric vehicles in this GAC Group division’s new production plant in Guangzhou, for joining and handling ...
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ArticleRocket Software and T-Systems International reduce data transfer delays
Image: Rocket Software/TSIRocket Software and T-Systems International, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary based in Frankfurt, have launched a combined solution for secure and rapid data exchange between product design and manufacturing partners, claiming a 90pc reduction in the time needed to share the data. Three global manufacturers have now signed ...
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ArticleAudi outlines latest digital development plan
The back-end of IT platform is shared with other VW Group brands (Image: Audi)At its Annual General Meeting in Ingolstadt last week, Audi’s board of management outlined initiatives including the development of an integrated IT platform for connectivity and digital services, and a new digital product management unit reporting ...
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ArticleDigitization seen as core to Industry 4.0 production system
Studies cite big networking deficits in car plants (Photo: Tesla)Digital technologies need to be fully embedded in the automotive manufacturing process if automakers are to succeed with efforts to modernize car production. That is one of the key messages of nextLAP, a startup that has developed an Internet of ...
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ArticleAt Continental, Lenninger takes over Intelligent Transport
Continental is expanding its new mobility and intelligent transport business (Photo: Continental)Ralf Lenninger has taken over as head of Continental’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) business, succeeding Seval Oz, a high-profile former Google executive the German automotive supplier recruited in 2014. Oz has now left the company.Lenninger, previously senior vice ...
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Feature"We need to talk differently to the connected consumer"
Brigitte Cantaloube joined PSA from Yahoo in early 2016 (Photo: PSA/Peugeot-Citroen)Brigitte Cantaloube became chief digital officer of PSA/Peugeot-Citroen on February 1. At the Paris auto show, the former Yahoo executive spoke to automotiveIT about the digital transformation of France’s biggest car groupYou’ve been on the job for eight months. ...
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ArticleBerylls study finds slow automotive digitization
Managing cultural change at traditional car companies is a challenge, the study found (Photo: Ford, Pivotal)A new study concludes that relatively few automakers are implementing a consistent digitization strategy, though most agree on what needs to be done.Berylls Strategy Advisors, which polled digital decision makers at six European automotive ...
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ArticleVW, Daimler, PSA establish mobility brands
The Generation EQ concept provides a preview of future Mercedes cars (Photo: Daimler)PARIS -- Major carmakers are founding new mobility brands as they look for ways to complement and even replace traditional revenue from new car sales.At the Paris auto show last week, volume car makers Volkswagen Group and ...
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Feature“You can forget everything that you’ve done to this point”
Opel's Tina Mueller is striving to improve the carmaker's brand imageWith deliveries rising in the second quarter and General Motors Europe and its core Opel brand posting its first quarterly pretax profit since 2011, the US carmaker hopes to continue the upward trend in  Europe for the rest ...
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ArticleSkoda CIO becomes chief digital officer
Andre Wehner (Photo: Linkedin)Skoda's former CIO, Andre Wehner, has taken over as chief digital officer at the Czech carmaking subsidiary of Volkswagen Group.Wehner assumed his new duties July 1 and is responsible for corporate strategy, digitization, process and organization management.Ralf Brunken, previously in charge of IT system development at ...
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ArticleMcKinsey study: Europe's slow digitization leaves money on the table
Europe's degree of digitization lacks behind the US (Photo: EU)European consumers are heavily invested in digital technologies, but the continent is far removed from realizing the full potential of digitization.That is one of the conclusions from a new study by the McKinsey Global Institute, a think tank affiliated with ...
