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nextLAP presents AI data hub for production and logistics at AL Global Conference
Image: nextLAP Inc.nextLAP Inc. of Mountain View, California, is to present its AI Production-Process-Platform IP/1 at next month’s Automotive Logistics Global Conference in Detroit. This is a cloud-based data hub featuring real-time analysis and artificial intelligence to optimize material flow in production and logistics processes.The IP/1 collects process parameters, ...
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Digitization 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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"IoT is coming to car manufacturing with big steps"
Andre Ziemke: "The potential of digitization in manufacturing is gigantic" (Photo: Claus Dick)Andre Ziemke is one of the co-founders of nextLAP, which has built a software platform designed to boost efficiency in car manufacturing. Ziemke spoke by phone recently to automotiveIT.Why did you start nextLAP?nextLAP co-founder Thomas (Stoeckel) and ...
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Production logistics next in line for digital overhaul
An autonomous tugger train supplies assembly logistics at a BMW plant in Dingolfing, Germany (photo: BMW)Manufacturing automation has in recent years reached a high degree of maturity, but production logistics has not kept pace. As a result, improvements in manufacturing efficiency haven’t been as high as they could be. ...
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Startup's predictive process control includes both manufacturing and logistics
nextLAP says Production 4.0 requires a holistic approach to the manufacturing process (Photo: Audi)Predictive maintenance is one of the best know applications that fall under the header ofIndustry 4.0, but nextLAP considers it only a first step toward a fully new approach to manufacturing. The startup, which has offices ...
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Audi executive to head Tesla car production
At the automotiveIT Forum, Hochholdinger spoke about change in manufacturing (Photo: Jonas Wresch)Former Audi executive Peter Hochholdinger will take charge of manufacturing at electric-car maker Tesla.Hocholdinger, who has worked at Audi for 22 years, will be responsible for the production of Tesla's Model S sedan and Model X crossover ...