Digitalization in the automotive industry for the future of mobility
Our world is currently changing with tremendous momentum—it’s becoming more and more fast-paced, digital, and connected, but also more unpredictable. Today, being flexible and able to adapt to new situations with speed and decisiveness are pivotal to long-term success. Especially in the working world.
Digital transformation: shaping our digital future
Digital talent and capabilities are key to the transformation. At DRÄXLMAIER, we are prepared.
With our digital transformation journey we are actively shaping our digital future. Digital transformation is not only about the technology. It enables our company to modernize legacy processes, accelerate and increase the efficiency of the workflows, strengthen the security, and insure sustainability. This is how we ensure our long-term success.
In sum, our digital transformation strategy includes several programs that cover all our business processes. Special focus lies on our “Digital Core”, linked to our underlying business processes. That enables us to maintain our strong position in the market and our competitiveness.
Integrative thinking across the entire value creation process is what makes our transformation special. The combination of the SAP transformation, the upgrade of our system landscape on the store floor, the transformation in engineering through the introduction of Siemens Teamcenter and the introduction of a global purchasing platform enables us to seamlessly link and optimize our business processes. This not only increases efficiency, but also improves collaboration and transparency within the company.
Our goal: a comprehensive, globally integrated process and system landscape. To reach this, we drive – for example – one of the largest global SAP S/4HANA implementation projects. Across all locations worldwide, at around 60 plants in 20 countries. We now have the unique opportunity of optimizing all the areas of the company – namely people, organization, processes, data and systems – through digital business transformation. For us, digitization is not an end in itself, but rather an inevitable basic requirement to respond to the growing product diversity and complexity in our industry
Only one example, how we shape digital transformation at DRÄXLMAIER. Our projects combine exciting prospects and wide-ranging opportunities for creative minds. Digital transformation shifts the mindset of how DRÄXLMAIER group is creating value for our end-customers, and none of that would be possible without digital empowered employees. You included! Become part of or digital story.
The faces of digitalization
Bianca
Procurement
“With digital transformation, we are investing in the next generations. Through automation and artificial intelligence, we are creating more freedom for jobs with real added value.”
Wolfgang
Shopfloor
“Overall, it is about securing the long-term sustainability of the company. The digitalization of the system and process world plays an important part in this. And it needs to be managed proactively.”
Eugen
Project Governance & Services
“The digital transformation is the foundation for long-term competitiveness and independence. We need the right answers to the increased challenges in the automotive environment.”
Jan
PLMnext
“Comprehensive management of our product data supports us in all phases of the product lifecycle and at all stages of the value chain.”
Robert
synapsis - SAP implementation
"The implementation of SAP, an enterprise resource planning system designed to streamline and integrate core business processes, ensures optimal performance, transparency, and seamless organization."
A success story in digital transformation
The automotive industry is currently undergoing a major historical revolution. DRÄXLMAIER has taken on this challenge and initiated a unique transformation.
As Transformation Lead, Gianni Di Loreto is responsible for the complete digital restructuring of the company.
Read the interviewDigital Collaboration
New technologies are changing our working world—with tremendous momentum. They merge the physical and digital world, creating entirely new possibilities for interaction and collaboration. Engineers at our locations in the US, for example, are successfully working with HoloLens. This mixed-reality technology fuses intuitive interactions between humans, computers, and the environment. In projects, they make a valuable contribution to increasing efficiency in production.
Our projects are always international. We take advantage of all the possibilities afforded by modern technology to meet digitally, find solutions, exchange ideas, or even maintain equipment.
Artificial intelligence in production
Advancing digitalization is revolutionizing industrial production. At DRÄXLMAIER, we rely on innovative AI technologies to optimize our production processes and increase product quality. For several years, we have been investing specifically in the development and implementation of artificial intelligence in order to fully exploit the diverse potential of this technology.
Our expertise in special machine construction combined with advanced AI image recognition enables us to develop customized solutions. Close collaboration between cross-functional teams from the fields of plant engineering, camera technology and IT results in efficient systems that make our production facilities intelligent and flexible. These synergies make a significant contribution to continuously monitoring and improving the quality of our products.
International cooperation
Another field of application for AI at DRÄXLMAIER is the optimization of our IT service processes. By using generative AI, we support our employees in their daily work and ensure smooth processes. This not only leads to greater efficiency, but also to improved process quality.
Our international projects benefit from the possibilities of digital networking. Modern technologies enable us to work together worldwide, exchange ideas and develop innovative solutions. This enables us to maintain machines remotely and provide optimum support for our production sites.