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This collaboration leverages Renault Group’s expertise and experience in the digital transformation of its manufacturing activities as well as capitalising on Atos’ expertise as a key player in manufacturing digital transformation and consulting.

Throughout the production process, manufacturers generate a phenomenal amount of data. In more cases than not, data is underutilised, owing to its diversity and lack of standardisation as well as operator time shortages.

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 standardised and effective way, then contextualised and made available in the cloud. As a result, the data corrects and scales up production processes and product quality with immediate effect. Easy access to standardised data via simple to use analytical tools and dashboards facilitates and accelerates the deployment of many kinds of use cases (production, maintenance, quality, and energies, etc.), including net zero benefits. Additionally, with ID@scale, manufacturers can target significant energy consumption benefits by monitoring and optimising energy consumed on production lines.

As part of the company’s digital transformation strategy, Renault Group’s IT, digital and engineering teams have developed this solution to capture data from its manufacturing facilities. For each type of manufacturing process, data is collected and structured in a standardised 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 standardised data models representing over 50 different manufacturing processes from screw driving to aluminium injection, including car frame welding, machining, painting, stamping, in addition to new manufacturing processes for electric motors and batteries. Renault 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.

As a leader in the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, Atos is strengthening and industrialising Renault’s solution through its combined technology portfolio, services, and consulting expertise.

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 optimising the inference of the most complex artificial intelligence models thanks to its Bull Sequana Edge server range. The service, which will continue to evolve, is suitable for all types of environments, whatever the industry sector, and deploys the solution “as a service” anywhere in the world. Finally, the partnership is supported by the Group’s Consulting and Services teams to market, deploy, and support the “as a service” solution worldwide, enabling rapid and agile deployment of new connectivity, data models, analytics, and insights for a customer within a few weeks.

“Renault Group has developed a unique technology solution to collect large-scale manufacturing data to improved performance of our production tools and therefore the quality of our vehicles. Today, we are pleased to announce a new milestone. Through our collaboration with Atos, we will go one step further in commercialising our expertise as we support manufacturing sector organisations 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.

“In a market with no equivalent solution, Atos modularises and enhances Renault Group’s initial solution for all manufacturing sectors, on a worldwide basis. By joining forces, Atos and Renault Group are enabling organisations 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.” said Rakesh Khanna, Head of Digital, Atos.