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Car Repair Shops

The automotive industry, with approximately 440,000 employees, is undergoing structural change. Just like other industries, the car repair sector is also facing the major challenges of digitalisation, electromobility, sustainability and securing skilled labour. The Car Repair 4.0 project shows SMEs, in particular, the opportunities and prospects for dealing with these requirements of the digital age – and for setting their sights on the major potential for value creation and new business models.

Adding value with AI

The Car Repair 4.0 partners are taking a fundamentally novel approach: A new measurement method uses oscilloscopes to record errors in the engine compartment of a vehicle, and this data can be interpreted in a differentiated manner using an AI-supported process. The goal of Car Repair 4.0 is to create a platform for the trustworthy exchange of industry-specific data on vehicle maintenance and servicing with precisely fitting AI models. Your car repair shop can link up with others via this platform to form an innovation and value creation network!

Troubleshoot instead of replacing parts

Until now, data collection has mostly been carried out via proprietary manufacturer diagnostic systems using the on-board diagnostic (OBD) interface. The disadvantage of this method: It only displays error codes stored in the ECU, so-called Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTC). As a result, only parts recommended by the system are replaced, but the real cause of an error is not determined. For you as a car repair shop owner, this means: unnecessary repairs and wasted resources. Car Repair 4.0 takes into account the sustainability of spare parts, more satisfied customers as well as the efficiency of your car repair shop!

Use these advantages

The Car Repair 4.0 solution with its measuring sensors, client software for the shop computer, and a cloud-based server structure in the Gaia-X data ecosystem is capable of streamlining processes and improving products and services along the value chain.

Differentiated fault diagnosis: less just-in-case parts replacement
Low-threshold deployment: fewer human and technical resources
Predictive maintenance: higher customer loyalty and fewer complaints
Individual service: for more customer satisfaction

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Measurement Systems and Diagnostic Manufacturers

The development of automotive technology has been picking up speed rapidly for years. The advent of software-dominated vehicles with sensors and driving assistants, as well as the expansion of data networks, require changes in error diagnosis. Service staff in car repair shops have neither the necessary prior knowledge, nor do existing diagnostic systems and business models have the potential to keep pace with digitalisation. The Car Repair 4.0 project addresses all these challenges and offers measurement system and diagnostic manufacturers the opportunity to actively shape artificial intelligence (AI) in the car repair sector.

AI strengthens your market position

With Car Repair 4.0, measurement system and diagnostics manufacturers can now expand their range of services to include AI diagnostics. AI complements your existing experience in interpreting measurement results and improves your position in the diagnostics market.

Benefit from the network

The goal of Car Repair 4.0 is to create a platform for the trustworthy exchange of industry-specific data on vehicle maintenance and servicing with precisely fitting AI models. As a measurement system provider, you will be linked via this platform to form an innovation and value creation network in order to jointly drive forward the digitalisation of the German car repair industry, which is dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Your advantages as a measuring system manufacturer

Expand your range with AI diagnostics
Present yourself as a renowned AI provider
Help shape AI processes, services, models

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IT Service Provider

We’re calling on you to use your know-how in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive the digitalisation of the German, SME-dominated car repair industry. The transformation from a proprietary to an open ecosystem is inevitable. This is the only way that small and medium-sized enterpises (SMEs) can keep up with internationally and create fair competition between independent and contract car repair shops. The Car Repair 4.0 project is developing AI-based automotive fault diagnosis and a data platform with Gaia-X connectivity across Germany. As an IT service provider, Car Repair 4.0 offers you the opportunity to actively participate in research and design.

New processes, services and business models

“The Car Repair 4.0 project helps SMEs adapt to the demands of the digital age. This is giving rise to major potential for value creation and new business models for the Internet industry and the automotive sector,” says Andreas Weiss, Head of Digital Business Models at eco – Association of the Internet Industry at the launch event in January 2022.

Collaborate with other experts

Whether you want to contribute your expertise in the development, implementation or use of automation technology, you are in the best company of such renowned consortium partners as: Auto-Intern GmbH, DEKRA DIGITAL, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Georg Agricola University of Applied Sciences, Vergölst GmbH and eco – Association of the Internet Industry.

Your advantages as an IT service provider

Present yourself as a renowned AI provider
Reach more than 5,000 independent car repair shops in Germany
Generate valid training data
Help shape AI processes, services, models

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