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The company is committed to ensuring sustainability along the entire value chain , assuming responsibility for its employees , the environment , and society
software development . The third focus is , of course , sustainability : from our production carbon footprint through to the life cycle of a car . Lastly , the fourth is cost-effectiveness and how we can be more cost efficient in our factories .”
To ensure that the production will be future-ready , Audi wants to improve efficiency in its factories and cut annual factory costs significantly . To achieve this , the premium brand plans to reduce the complexity of its vehicles where it does not benefit the customer . To this end , vehicle development will adopt a streamlined production process from the outset . Audi will also continue to digitalize production and uses Artificial Intelligence to make processes more efficient . Audi has currently identified more than 100 AI use cases in production at different levels of maturity , ranging from idea status to testing and series production . With the Edge Cloud 4 production solution Audi is working on a Cloud based production steering . The solution will make it possible to replace expensive industrial PCs , reducing IT efforts such as software rollouts and operating system changes . “ Digitalization and artificial intelligence are enabler for efficient and flexible production . We use these key technologies for the digital transformation in production and logistics on our road to the Audi 360factory ,” Gerd Walker adds . Virtual assembly planning saves material resources and make innovative , flexible collaboration possible across locations .
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