- Mercedes-Benz introduces MO360 Data Platform, connecting
passenger car plants to Microsoft Cloud
- Vehicle production efficiency expected to improve by 20 percent
by 2025
- Logistic teams to solve supply chain bottlenecks much
faster
- Dynamic allocation of resources to prioritize low-emission and
Top-End Luxury vehicles
- Production teams can access self-service portal with Microsoft
Power BI dashboard from any device
- Data analytics tool to monitor and forecast carbon emissions,
energy and water usage, waste management
Mercedes-Benz AG and Microsoft Corp. collaborate to make vehicle
production more efficient, resilient and sustainable. With the new
MO360 Data Platform, Mercedes-Benz is connecting its around 30
passenger car plants worldwide to the Microsoft Cloud, enhancing
transparency and predictability across its digital production and
supply chain. The MO360 Data Platform is the evolution of
Mercedes-Benz’ digital production ecosystem MO360 and allows teams
to identify potential supply chain bottlenecks faster and enable a
dynamic prioritization of production resources towards electric and
Top-End vehicles. This unified data platform is standardized on
Microsoft Azure, providing Mercedes-Benz with flexibility and cloud
computing power to run artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics
at global scale while addressing cybersecurity and compliance
standards across regions. The platform is already available to
teams in EMEA and will be deployed in the United States and
China.
Joerg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of
Mercedes-Benz Group AG, responsible for Production & Supply
Chain Management: “This new partnership between Microsoft and
Mercedes-Benz will make our global production network more
intelligent, sustainable and resilient in an era of geopolitical
and macroeconomic challenges. The ability to predict and prevent
problems in production and logistics will become a key competitive
advantage as we go all electric.”
Judson Althoff, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial
Officer at Microsoft: “Mercedes-Benz’ partnership with
Microsoft is a testament to the power of the industrial metaverse.
Together, we are merging the physical and digital worlds to
accelerate value creation. Mercedes-Benz can simulate and refine
manufacturing processes infinitely in the Microsoft Cloud before
bringing them to the shop floor to enhance efficiency and minimize
its environmental impact amid constant change and uncertainty.”
Jan Brecht, Chief Information Officer of Mercedes-Benz Group
AG: “With the MO360 Data Platform, we democratize technology
and data in manufacturing. As we are moving towards a 100% digital
enterprise, data is becoming everyone’s business at Mercedes-Benz.
Our colleagues on the shop floor have access to production and
management-related real-time data. They are able to work with
drill-down dashboards and make data-based decisions.”
Redefine production excellence with a unified data platform
With the MO360 Data Platform, the Stuttgart-based carmaker can
create a virtual replica of its vehicle manufacturing process,
combining insights from assembly, production planning, shop floor
logistics, supply chain and quality management. The virtual
simulation and optimization of processes before running them on the
shop floor, helps to accelerate operational efficiency and unlock
energy savings. For example, managers can optimize operational
patterns to reduce CO2-emissions in production.
Mercedes-Benz is also exploring the integration of the MO360
Data Platform with data sources from other departments to enable a
digital feedback loop that will spur continuous learning and
innovation across the Group.
The recently opened Mercedes-Benz Digital Factory Campus Berlin
is the home base for the MO360 Data Platform engineering teams and
will become the MO360 training and qualification center for
implementing digital approaches globally.
Increase supply chain resilience and efficiency
With the new centralized data platform, teams can instantly
analyze and visualize production data, to faster optimize
production processes and identify potential supply chain
bottlenecks. This enables a dynamic allocation of operational
resources within and across plants to prioritize the manufacturing
of low-emission and Top-End Luxury vehicles. The Mercedes-Benz
Operations Logistics team will be able to solve supply chain
bottlenecks much faster. They can compare the availability of
components, including semiconductors, with production orders and
position this data against production parameters including
operational running plans. As a result, plant managers keep the
production running and prioritize relevant vehicles even if supply
chain challenges occur.
Move at full speed towards an all-electric future
The MO360 Data Platform will make it easier to maintain
production of both electric and combustion-engine vehicles on a
single production line as the market demand gradually shifts
towards an all-electric future. To tackle shortages in components
and prevent delivery delays, the MO360 Data Platform will enable
teams to explore a variety of production scenarios depending on the
availability of components like semiconductors, based on real-time
data about the quality of parts and equipment. This is expected to
result in productivity gains of 20 percent in passenger car
production by 2025 and help to avoid unplanned downtimes and
schedule maintenance work in a timely and CO2-friendly fashion.
Reduce ecological footprint from water and energy use to waste
management
As part of the MO360 Data Platform, Mercedes-Benz has
implemented an analytics tool to monitor and reduce its ecological
footprint during vehicle production, a crucial milestone towards
the company’s Ambition 2039 to become carbon-neutral by 2039. With
the data analytics tool, teams can track and forecast carbon
emissions, energy and water usage as well as waste management and
roll out best practices across the production network.
Mercedes-Benz plans to cover more than 70 percent of its energy
needs through renewable sources by 2030 by expanding solar and wind
power at its own sites and through Power Purchase Agreements and
plans to cut its use of water by 351 percent through the reuse of
water in production.
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average 2013/14
Democratize data to enhance workforce productivity and
distributed teamwork
Mercedes-Benz production staff gets access to the MO360 Data
Platform via a self-service portal available on any company device
including tablets, smartphones and laptops. Its visualization with
Microsoft Power BI provides a what-you-see-is-what-you-get
experience, allowing employees to become data workers with the
ability to model and correlate data. The Teams Walkie Talkie app
provides workers with an instant push-to-talk (PTT) communication
on their business phones – no extra device needed.
With the MO360 Data Platform, teams at Factory 56 have shortened
their daily shop floor meeting by 30 percent. In addition, they
identify priority tasks to optimize production workflows within two
minutes, which took up to four hours prior to the introduction of
the platform. From team leads and process engineers to shop and
plant managers, employees are encouraged to contribute new use
cases to drive process innovation with Microsoft Power
Platform.
Working with a global community of internal and external
developers, Mercedes-Benz’ production process software engineers
are committed to open collaboration. They use Free and Open Source
Software (FOSS) including GitHub to improve the quality of the
software and the speed of delivery. They benefit from Azure Data
Lake, Azure Databricks and Azure Purview to process and govern huge
amounts of data and run AI and analytics using their preferred
development frameworks. For software deployment and operations,
they work with Azure DevOps.
Further information about Mercedes-Benz is available at
www.mercedes-benz.com. Press information and digital services for
journalists and multipliers can be found on our Mercedes me media
online platform at media.mercedes-benz.com as well as on our
Mercedes-Benz media site at group-media.mercedes-benz.com. Learn
more about current topics and events related to Mercedes-Benz Cars
& Vans on our @MB_Press Twitter channel at
www.twitter.com/MB_Press.
Mercedes-Benz AG at a glance
Mercedes‑Benz AG is responsible for the global business of
Mercedes‑Benz Cars and Mercedes‑Benz Vans, with around 172,000
employees worldwide. Ola Källenius is Chairman of the Board of
Management of Mercedes‑Benz AG. The company focuses on the
development, production and sales of passenger cars, vans and
vehicle-related services. Furthermore, the company aspires to be
the leader in the fields of electric mobility and vehicle software.
The product portfolio comprises the Mercedes‑Benz brand with the
brands of Mercedes‑AMG, Mercedes‑Maybach, Mercedes‑EQ, G‑Class as
well as products of the smart brand. The Mercedes me brand offers
access to the digital services from Mercedes‑Benz. Mercedes‑Benz AG
is one of the world's largest manufacturers of luxury passenger
cars. In 2021 it sold around 1.9 million passenger cars and nearly
386,200 vans. In its two business segments, Mercedes‑Benz AG is
continually expanding its worldwide production network with around
35 production sites on four continents, while gearing itself to
meet the requirements of electric mobility. At the same time, the
company is constructing and extending its global battery production
network on three continents. As sustainability is the guiding
principle of the Mercedes‑Benz strategy and for the company itself,
this means creating lasting value for all stakeholders: for
customers, employees, investors, business partners and society as a
whole. The basis for this is the sustainable business strategy of
the Mercedes‑Benz Group. The company thus takes responsibility for
the economic, ecological and social effects of its business
activities and looks at the entire value chain.
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