Audi’s ‘Edge Cloud 4 Production’ ecosystem launches into serial production

Edge Cloud 4 Production uses local servers that act as data processing center and eliminates the need for expensive, high-maintenance industrial PCs.

EC4P is an IT-based production system that leverages Edge and Cloud technology to digitise the automotive production landscape and is the first of its kind to go into serial production.

EC4P is Audi’s new IT-based local-server factory automation ecosystem, and it will move Audi’s production closer to complete local cloud-automation across the entire factory floor. The ecosystem leverages local servers which function as compact data processing centres by distributing large volumes of data to power its devices with minimal latency.

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