Audi Electronic Fault Information System (ELFIS)Success Story
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The Company
Headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany, AUDI AG is one of the major manufacturers of luxury cars and is a 99%-owned subsidiary (as of 2004) of Volkswagen, the largest car manufacturer in Europe. Audi produces more than 960,000 cars per year with several renowned models in its line-up of A-series cars, which include the A4, A6, and A8.
The Solution
Between 2005 and 2009, EB developed in successful cooperation with Audi production planning, line and IT departments an all-in-one IT system with advanced functionality to succeed the existing ones. EB provided the entire application software, using up-to-date Java Spring web application and Oracle database technology, as well as the overall development lifecycle based on agile methods.
The Challenge
In 2005 Audi faced 7 autonomous IT systems for 2 plants with 5 production lines. These systems were used for electronics and mechanical fault documentation, cause analysis and reporting. Each system by itself did not cover all aspects of fault/cause data handling. Missing interoperability and scalability, divergent user interfaces and insular databases also posed a challenge.
The Benefit
With the new system Audi is able to address fault handling for electronic and mechanical parts in production in a single unified process for several German as well as international plants and production lines. A central component is the joint capture of faults and their causes based on a single object naming terminology.