On June 28, 2022, Atos and Renault jointly announced in a statement, the signing of a partnership with the aim of developing and commercializing a large-scale industrial data collection platform. By offering this solution to companies in the industrial sector, the two firms hope to help industry players in their digital transition.
IDscale, a tool to collect data from industrial equipment
As part of Renault’s digital transformation strategy, the firm’s IT teams have developed the IDscale solution: a tool that collects and structures data from industrial equipment throughout the production chain.
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Thus, the data is standardized as soon as it is collected, then contextualized according to its nature and finally, made available in the cloud for the business departments. Dashboards and analysis tools aim to facilitate and accelerate the creation and deployment of numerous industrial use cases.
At present, the tool is already functional: it is present in 22 Renault factories and reports data from more than 7,500 pieces of equipment with standardized data models for around fifty different manufacturing processes. However, in order to improve its solution and to be able to offer it to other players in the industrial sector, the firm wished to join forces with Atos, the French digital services company which announced its split into two separate entities in the coming months.
The contribution of Atos to improve the IDscale solution developed by Renault
As Jose-Vicente de los Mozos, Industrial Director of Renault, points out, this collaboration allows Renault to market our know-how in order to help companies in the industrial sector in scaling up their digital transformation “. Atos will strengthen and industrialize IDscale thanks to its technological skills.
The solution will benefit from Atos’ Edge to Cloud offer, allowing real-time analysis of a large volume of complex industrial data. This data will be secured from the Edge (the periphery) to the cloud platforms. In addition, thanks to the BullSequana Edge server range, the inference of artificial intelligence models (i.e. the ability of a model to make efficient predictions) will be optimized.
Thanks to Idscale, Renault claims that it is already saving 80 million euros per year. It now aims to deploy its solution in all of its 35 factories, which corresponds to the collection of data from 22 pieces of equipment, by 2023, which should generate savings of 200 million euros per year.
This is not the first time that Renault has partnered with large groups to digitize its supply chain or its production chain. In 2020, the automaker partnered with Google Cloud to accelerate the digitalization of its supply chain. More recently, on June 15, Renault acquired start-up Fixter with the aim of digitizing car maintenance.