Volkswagen Group rolls out generative AI maintenance chatbot to 8 plants in 3 weeks
Volkswagen Group, Europe's largest carmaker with more than 100 plants globally, built Genius, a central generative AI platform running on its Digital Production Platform co-developed with AWS, using Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, Amazon Neptune, and AWS Textract. Genius includes a maintenance chatbot that gives shop-floor teams instant access to technical data to diagnose issues faster and cut downtime; the chatbot was rolled out to 8 plants in 3 weeks, reducing development and operational costs and speeding deployment times.
Overview
Volkswagen Group, Europe's largest carmaker with more than 100 plants globally, built Genius, a central generative AI platform running on its Digital Production Platform co-developed with AWS, using Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, Amazon Neptune, and AWS Textract. Genius includes a maintenance chatbot that gives shop-floor teams instant access to technical data to diagnose issues faster and cut downtime; the chatbot was rolled out to 8 plants in 3 weeks, reducing development and operational costs and speeding deployment times.
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Volkswagen Group, operating more than 100 plants globally, needed to give shop-floor teams faster access to technical data to diagnose maintenance issues and cut downtime, and wanted to democratize AI so employees across production could build and use their own intelligent assistants.
The solution
Volkswagen Group built Genius, a central generative AI platform running on its Digital Production Platform (DPP) co-developed with AWS, using Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, Amazon Neptune, AWS Textract, and Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for centralized, trusted data management. A maintenance chatbot within Genius gives shop-floor teams instant access to technical data to diagnose issues faster and cut downtime.
Reported business value
We've been able to reduce development and operational costs as well as speed deployment times. We rolled out the maintenance chatbot to 8 plants in 3 weeks—that was a huge success.
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