Siemens joins Volkswagen to develop digitised electric car production

The company will help Volkswagen streamline mass production of electric cars at its factory in Germany.The German auto giant expects to manufacture up
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Volkswagen's first new generation electric car being built with Siemens automation technology
Volkswagen's first new generation electric car being built with Siemens automation technology

Siemens has joined hands with German carmaker Volkswagen for production of electric cars. The company has already supplied products and systems and helped develop an automation standard for the versatile mass production of a range of different models.

“We want to increase the degree of automation in our production processes while simultaneously reducing complexity. We’ve chosen to work with Siemens, our long-standing partner and one of the leading companies in industrial automation and digitalisation, because they have the necessary application expertise in this area," said Thomas Zembok, Head of Factory Automation and Digital Production at the Volkswagen AG company.

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The Volkswagen brand expects to be building up to one and a half million electric cars a year by 2025. In order to enable this level of mass production, its Zwickau factory in Germany will be completely converted to e-mobility and extensively digitised by the end of 2020.

The electric car is based on the MEB platform (Modular Electric-Drive Matrix), comprising a battery and two axles, one or both of which are electrically driven, depending on the design. The production plants for the MEB-platform models are based on the 6th generation of the VASS (Volkswagen Audi Seat Skoda) standard. The VASS standard includes automation solutions for hardware, software and visualisation, as well as material for application training and upskilling.

“With the VASS standard we offer a building block system for stable production and facilitate mass production of different models on the same line. At the same time, we are creating a consistent basis for further digitalization of the production processes," explained Thomas Zembok, Volkswagen AG.

The first of two lines for body shop and final assembly has already been implemented and series production has started. The second line is currently being realised and is scheduled to go into operation in the fall of 2020. Six models based on MEB platform for three group brands are scheduled to be built in Zwickau from 2021. The first of this new generation of electric cars rolling off the production line since November is the ID.3.

First Published Date: 12 Mar 2020, 13:15 PM IST
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