By using the ZEISS PiWeb software, Volkswagen has achieved a significantly faster generation of measuring reports. However, this is just the beginning. The software enables the Group to establish disruptive business models – from fully automated reporting processes to the vision of a 100% virtual verification and functional analysis of assembly parts for launching a new series.

Initially, measuring reports and measurement analyses as well as process optimization at the Volkswagen Group were done with a VW proprietary software. However, the software, in many ways, did not comply with the current requirements anymore. “The software was neither extendable by new functions nor really user-friendly,” Dr. Achim Schwan, Head of Meisterbock & Cubing at Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg, says. “Moreover, it no longer complied with our strict data security policy.” This is why they started looking for a new, sustainable solution – which they found at ZEISS.

Working group called for ZEISS PiWeb to be the new software solution

Quality managers from vehicle manufacturing sites of all Volkswagen brands regularly come together in a working group to drive future-relevant subjects. Procurement of a new reporting software became one of the topics to be discussed by them. “Some colleagues from Porsche, Audi and three VW sites had already been working with ZEISS PiWeb and were very enthusiastic about it – both about its easy usability & stability and about its scope of functionalities,” Dr. Schwan recalls. “The product matched our expectations ‘out of the box’; no additional development would have been necessary.” This was a highly valuable benefit making it considerably easier to switch from the old solution to a new one. The software has now been introduced as the default solution for the brands Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Seat.

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