New Delhi:Renault Group and Atos on Tuesday launched ID@scale (Industrial Data @ Scale), a new service for industrial data collection to support manufacturing companies in their digital journey towards Industry 4.0.
“ID@S” (Industrial Data @ Scale) will allow manufacturers to collect and structure data from industrial equipment at scale to improve operational excellence and product quality. Developed by the car manufacturer and already in operation within its factories, ID@scale is now industrialized, modularized and commercialized by the digital leader Atos, a media release said.
The partnership is supported by the Group’s Consulting and Services teams to market, deploy, and support the “as a service” solution worldwide, enabling the rapid and agile deployment of new connectivity, data models, analytics, and insights for a customer within a few weeks.
“Today, we are pleased to announce a new milestone. Through our collaboration with Atos, we will go one step further in commercializing our expertise as we support manufacturing sector organizations in the scale-up of their digital transformation. This marks a new step in Renault Group’s digital transformation and innovation capacity,” said Jose-Vicente de los Mozos, EVP Group Industry, Renault Group
By deploying ID@S, manufacturers will now be able to collect data from a wide range of manufacturing facilities (diverse suppliers, generations, global location, firmware updates, etc.) in a standardized and effective way, then contextualized and made available in the cloud, the release stated.
As a result, the data is correct and scales up production processes and product quality with immediate effect. Easy access to standardized data via simple-to-use analytical tools and dashboards facilitates and accelerates the deployment of many kinds of use cases (production, maintenance, quality, energies, etc.), including net-zero benefits. Additionally, with ID@scale, manufacturers can target significant energy consumption benefits by monitoring and optimizing energy consumed on production lines.
In a market with no equivalent solution, Atos modularizes and enhances Renault Group’s initial solution for all manufacturing sectors, on a worldwide basis, said Rakesh Khanna, Head of Digital, Atos. “By joining forces, Atos and Renault Group are enabling organizations to effectively collect data from their plants to leverage information on a large-scale basis and successfully scale up and accelerate their digital manufacturing transformation.
For each type of manufacturing process, data is collected and structured in a standardized way, enabling a variety of use cases across manufacturing, engineering, quality, CSR, logistics, etc. to be addressed. Today, this solution is deployed on a large scale across twenty-two plants within Renault Group.
More than 7,500 pieces of equipment are connected, with standardized data models representing over 50 different manufacturing processes from a screwdriver to aluminum injection, including car frame welding, machining, painting, and stamping, in addition to new manufacturing processes for electric motors and batteries.
The Group is already saving 80 million euros per year and aims to deploy this solution across the remainder of its 35 plants, connecting over 22,000 pieces of equipment, by 2023 to generate savings of 200 million euros per year
The ID@scale service benefits from Atos’ Edge to Cloud offering, enabling real-time analysis of large volumes of complex industrial data while securing it from the Edge to Cloud platforms, as well as optimizing the inference of the most complex artificial intelligence models thanks to its Bull Sequana Edge server range.
The JV will install two new production lines in Ruitz in 2023 with a capacity of 300 000 battery casings per year by 2025, for electric models, including the future R5, a joint statement said.