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A recap on the Smart Factory Day

Smart Factory Day 2023 in Ingolstadt

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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)

Keynote

Jörg Spindler

Head of Manufacturing Engineering | Audi AG

On the Way to the Audi 360factory

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    Audi is fully committed to electromobility: Based on this clear decision, the company is now preparing all its sites step by step for the production of electric cars. In doing so, Audi is building on its existing global production network and investing in its existing plants so that they will ultimately be just as efficient and flexible as newly built factories. Profitability, sustainability, flexibility and attractiveness are equally important goals in the transformation. Audi therefore calls the production of the future 360factory. The four rings are using the move to e-mobility to also make major leaps in productivity and optimization via the necessary conversions. For example, the premium manufacturer will continue to drive forward the digitalization of production and has set itself ambitious sustainability targets.

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

Picture gallery Ingolstadt 2023

Photos: BKfotofilm Würzburg

Smart Factory Day 2022 in Leipzig

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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

Picture gallery Leipzig 2022

Photos: Max Niemann Leipzig

Smart Factory Day 2022 in Böblingen

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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

Picture gallery Böblingen

Photos: BKfotofilm Würzburg

Smart Factory Day 2020 (Digital-Event)

Editorial Reporting 2020

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)

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