en.Wedoany.com Reported - Germany's Audi is introducing virtualization technology from the IT sector into actual production environments through a project called Edge Cloud 4 Production, demonstrating the maturity of this technology in handling complex production tasks.

Virtualized systems offer advantages in the IT field such as easy scalability, centralized management, and efficient maintenance, but this concept has not yet become widespread in operational technology. Through this project, Audi aims to create a new, software-based infrastructure that merges IT and OT in production.

A virtual system is essentially a virtual machine hosted on a server, running as software independent of the platform or operating system. Its advantages include easy replication, centralized management, and efficient resource utilization, for example, multiple instances can share the same hardware. The separation of hardware and applications also enhances IT security. Although virtualization requires a hypervisor as an abstraction layer and applications need to run in isolated sandboxes, modern computing power has reduced performance disadvantages to a negligible level.

Christian-Klaus Müller, Solution Architect for Audi Edge Cloud 4 Production, recalled the project's launch, saying: "Some people thought we were crazy at the time." He described that seeing hundreds of controllers in production drove the creation of the project.

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