Case Study: Renault Group achieves real-time manufacturing visibility with Akka

Renault Group cuts parts inventory by 20% with Akka

Renault Group, a global automaker, faced significant challenges due to digital discontinuity across its vast factory network. The company managed its vehicle production cycle across five to six disconnected legacy systems, each with its own data model. This made real-time operational adjustments impossible and forced costly, risky changes across all systems whenever one was updated. Renault partnered with Akka to build a solution.

Working with reflek.io, Renault built a SaaS Digital Twin Execution Platform on Akka. This platform created real-time, event-driven digital twins of every industrial asset, from cars and robots to spare parts, collapsing the multiple legacy systems into a single execution layer. The solution delivered substantial results for Renault, including a 20% reduction in parts inventory translating to millions in annual savings and the mirroring of over 35 plants from edge to cloud. Akka provided the distributed clustering and resilience needed for this real-time digital replica, enabling faster production and better carbon tracking.

Renault Group