Mercedes Benz has deployed AI and humanoid robots at its Digital Factory Campus in Berlin as part of plans to develop its production.
The company announced in a press release on 18 March that the deployment is a step towards accelerating the transformation of its production network by reinforcing Berlin-Marienfelde’s status as the center of innovation for MO360 digital production technologies.
Taking innovation higher
The Berlin-Marienfelde became established as the global centre of competence for the digitalisation of production with the Mercedes Benz Digital Factory Campus (MBDFC) in 2022.
Its main aim was to promote the development of future software applications in a real production environment.
The central basis of the activities is the Mercedes-Benz Cars Operations 360 digital production ecosystem (MO360), which contains all the important software applications and data of the global production network.
Mercedes Benz has enhanced its MO360 production system with AI features like the Digital Factory Chatbot Ecosystem and the MO360LLM Suite, as well as with humanoid robots, thus reinforcing Berlin-Marienfelde’s status as a centre for global innovation.
Commenting, Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, responsible for Production, Quality & Supply Chain Management said:
“Mercedes-Benz Berlin-Marienfelde remains at the cutting edge of automotive production and keeps Germany on the map as a global centre for innovation. Artificial Intelligence and humanoid robots open up an exciting new frontier which makes automotive production more sustainable, efficient and more intelligent.”
Today, the company brings one of the world’s most advanced commercial humanoid robots into its manufacturing facilities.
In line with its commitment to deploying humanoid robots in automotive production, Mercedes-Benz will make a low double-digit-million-euro investment into U.S.-based human-focused robot maker Apptronik.
In terms of AI, Mercedes Benz is also using the in-house Digital Factory Chatbot Ecosystem development that uses AI to answer employees’ questions about machine maintenance or best-practice methods for manufacturing processes.
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