AUDI is a global premium automobile manufacturer based in Ingolstadt. With over 87.000 employees, 1.7 million vehicles are produced annually at 16 locations in 8 countries. In vehicle production, a clear path towards digital and flexible manufacturing is being pursued.
Objectives: Joining steels of varying strengths creates welding spatters that hinder follow-up steps and require rework. So far, inspection and correction were manual and time-critical. The customer aims to automate this process using AI across multiple lines and sites.

Optical detection and automated rework of weld spatter on vehicle bodies, based on a customer trained AI-Algorithm and high-resolution images.
The Siemens Application AI Inference Server provides a secure runtime for custom vision AI models to detect product defects. In addition the Asset Manager centrally orchestrates, monitors, and scales AI models across the factory.