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Production Audi Q6 e-tron at the Ingolstadt site - The degree of automation in the body shop is 87 percent.

Audi stands for sustainable, efficient, and flexible production. To achieve this goal, Audi relies on its global production network while, at the same time, transforming its highly qualified staff and leveraging digital technologies in the manufacturing process. To further reduce the environmental impact in the area of production and logistics, Audi is pursuing its central goal of making all Audi production sites worldwide net carbon neutral* by 2025.

*Audi understands net-zero carbon emissions to mean a situation in which, after other possible reduction measures have been exhausted, the company offsets the carbon emitted by Audi’s products or activities and/or the carbon emissions that currently cannot be avoided in the supply chain, manufacturing, and recycling of Audi vehicles through voluntary offsetting projects carried out worldwide. In this context, carbon emissions generated during a vehicle’s utilization stage, i.e., from the moment it is delivered to the customer, are not taken into account.

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Production Audi Q6 e-tron at the Ingolstadt site - Audi is further increasing the level of automation in the paint shop in Ingolstadt for the Q6 e-tron.
Models
03/18/2024

Sustainable and flexible: production of the Audi Q6 e-tron series in Ingolstadt

Since production started in late 2023, the Audi Q6 e-tron series has been the first high-volume fully electric model series that Audi has produced at its headquarters in Ingolstadt. In keeping with the brand’s 360factory production strategy, Audi has integrated individual production steps into existing body shop and assembly structures and processes. Since January 1, 2024, Ingolstadt is the third Audi location to manufacture with net zero emissions1, following Brussels (2018) and Győr (2020). In addition, the brand with the four rings’ headquarters is also the first Audi location in Germany to have its own battery assembly facility.
Infographic - Edge Cloud 4 Production - Audi is the first car manufacturer in cycle-dependent production to use a centralized server solution that redeploys computing power.
Strategic topics
07/13/2023

Edge Cloud 4 Production: IT-based factory automation enters series production

Audi has been testing the local server solution Edge Cloud 4 Production (EC4P), a new method of IT-based factory automation, at Böllinger Höfe since July 2022. Starting in July 2023, this paradigm shift in Audi’s shop floor IT will be used for the first time in series production. At Böllinger Höfe, a local server cluster will control the worker support systems for two production cycles of the Audi e-tron GT quattro, RS e-tron GT, and Audi R8 models. In the future, the software-controlled, flexible, and scalable server solution will replace the decentralized control system that relies on high-maintenance industrial PCs. EC4P allows Audi to redeploy the computing power the production line requires to local data processing centers. In addition to this first application in series production, Audi is simultaneously adapting EC4P for other use cases in the Audi Production Lab (P-Lab).

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  • Smart Production - Smart Production: Audi uses artificial intelligence and machine learning. At the Ingolstadt press shop, an AI algorithm helps detect cracks in components. Audi 360factory
    From modular assembly as a response to increasing product variety, to virtual assembly planning for the resource-efficient design of infrastructure or the local server solution Edge Cloud 4 Production that is a paradigm shift in factory automation: Audi is building a fully networked, highly efficient, and sustainable way of production that uses new technologies and concepts to successfully meet the demands of the future. In doing so, Audi is looking at manufacturing as a whole - from the individual employee to the fully automated production cycle.
    Audi MediaCenter
    07/17/2023

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Audi Board Member for Production Gerd Walker - Audi Board Member for Production Gerd Walker welcomes the fact that the Audi Q6 e-tron model series will bring further expertise and technologies to the Ingolstadt site.

Gerd Walker

Member of the Board of Management at AUDI AG
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