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Embotech and BMW Plants Surpass One Million Automated Vehicle Moves

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Embotech and the BMW Group say that, using in-plant automated driving technology, they have cumulatively moved 1 million vehicles at four plants in the UK and Germany, currently performing about 3,500 vehicle moves per day, with system availability exceeding 99.5%. The four plants are Dingolfing, Leipzig and Regensburg in Germany and the MINI Oxford plant in the UK; the project began as a pilot in 2022 and has now expanded to these four sites, serving a variety of automated vehicle-movement scenarios in production and logistics areas. The Automated Driving In-Plant solution installs perception devices such as Hesai lidar on the production-line infrastructure side; vehicles do not need to have autonomous driving capability or be fitted with additional sensors, nor do they require hardware modification; the safety architecture has been independently certified by TÜV SÜD. The two companies say they are taking the technology global and plan to deploy it next year at BMW's Spartanburg plant in the US. The above figures, certification and deployment plans all come from the two companies' statements.