Dürr will be among the partners for the new Industrial Cloud of Volkswagen and Amazon Web Services, providing two applications from the DXQ software.
The Dürr Group is one of the pioneering partners for the new Industrial Cloud of Volkswagen and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company will initially provide two smart applications from the DXQ software will be provided by Dürr on the OEM's open industry platform.
Through the Industrial Cloud, which will feature easily accessible applications, Volkswagen's worldwide factories and other partner companies will be able to optimize their manufacturing processes and productivity, while Dürr will exploit the feedback from the automotive factories to develop its applications further.
In an initial step, Volkswagen and AWS have opened the Industrial Cloud to eleven partner companies.
Dürr will provide a DXQ application, among others, to increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). This software is deployed in the quality management of paint shops and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify error patterns. The DXQ application also performs an AI-based status analysis of the painting robots and relates these results to the painting results.
Dürr will also provide the DXQ Filling Services, a software application which enables productivity enhancements in final assembly. It analyzes the system status of filling stations, in which cars can be supplied with fluids such as brake fluid, air-conditioning refrigerant or gear oil. This enables the fill¬ing process to be optimized.
"The integration of part¬ner software in the Industrial Cloud creates a win-win situation. Volkswagen can offer its factories a fast-growing range of diverse software applications. For us, the integration is valuable because it helps us gain new insights into production. This enables us to design our applications in an even more customer-oriented way and better establish them in the market", said Dr. Jochen Weyrauch, CEO of Dürr Systems AG.
Furthermore, Dürr is supporting Volkswagen in digitalizing the new paint shop in the Chinese plant in Anting. This is where DXQ applications for the optimization of processes, production quality, energy consumption and plant maintenance are used.
The collaboration with Volkswagen in Anting is Dürr's largest digitalization project to date.