VW wants to increase productivity and relies on more networking. Together with Amazon, the carmaker developed its own Cloud in which all data of the works together.

Volkswagen builds common with the US digital group Amazon a Cloud of your own. By storing and networking their data on the Internet, the car manufacturer wants to increase the productivity in his works. The two companies announced a multi-year cooperation.

“Amazon Web Services” is one of the largest Cloud providers in the world.

VW wants to merge the data of all machinery, equipment, and systems from all 122 of the factories in the “Industrial Cloud”. This will help to optimize procedures and processes in the production. Amazon has with the daughter of Amazon Web Services (AWS) already one of the largest Cloud services in the world, can put in the companies and private persons of your data.

Everything should be digitized

“We will strengthen the production. The cooperation with Amazon creates important preconditions,” said Porsche chief Oliver flower, in the group Board of management responsible for production. With the structure of the Cloud VW-creating the basis for an end-to-end digitisation of its production and logistics.

medium-term work, therefore, approximately 220 specialists in Germany for this Service. In Berlin, a joint innovation center of VW, and Amazon had planned. The companies want to take their “Industrial Cloud”, and the first concrete Services and functions at the end of the year.