AI
“Together, we’ re fast-tracking AI solutions that will help unlock new levels of innovation”
Kathrin Renz, VP of AWS Industries, Amazon
By expanding its partnership with AWS, Volkswagen was able to build and scale its Digital Production Platform( DPP), which acts as the digital nervous system for its factories. This created a standardised infrastructure that now connects its sites across three continents. Building on AWS eliminated Volkswagen’ s need for costly on-premises GPU clusters at each location. Instead, it used the cloud for the high availability and scalability required for productioncritical systems.
This centralised approach underpins what has become the automotive industry’ s largest industrial AI deployment. Using Amazon SageMaker, Volkswagen’ s teams can develop, train and deploy machine learning models efficiently, allowing solutions to be rapidly replicated across the entire network.
Real-time computer vision is used as part of this strategy and underpin Volkswagen’ s approach to quality control. At major German facilities, AI-powered systems process thousands of images per hour directly on the assembly line, automatically verifying that thousands of components align with each vehicle’ s specific configuration. This automated inspection detects mismatches with a speed and consistency that manual processes cannot achieve, preventing faults from ever reaching the customer.
96 November 2025