7/5/2026 |Articles are machine translated
Smart Manufacturing Manager Jakub Hamerník in AUMOVIO production with an industrial robot. | Photo: AUMOVIO
The Brandýslav plant is one of the most modern centers for the production of automotive electronics not only within AUMOVIO, but also in the entire industry. In addition to producing the most modern automotive technology, it is dedicated to development and strives to connect the production environment with academic research. One such example is the RAASCEMAN project, which aims to develop tools that analyze data from production and supply networks in real time and help respond to possible supply disruptions.
The Brandýs plant continues the industrial roots of the former PAL company. However, its immediate predecessor was the production in Kbelé, which became part of Siemens VDO Automotive after 2001. After its takeover by the Continental Group in 2007, production was gradually moved to a new plant in Brandýs nad Labem. The company was given a new name, AUMOVIO, last year when Continental’s automotive division was spun off into an independent technology company.
In the fiscal year 2025, AUMOVIO achieved sales of 18.5 billion euros. Headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, it employs around 82,000 people at more than 80 locations worldwide.
The Brandy plant is one of the most modern centers for the production of automotive electronics not only within AUMOVIO, but also in the entire industry.
The production portfolio consists of large-format displays, multimedia units, on-board devices, connectivity boxes, powerful computers and other key components for the automotive industry. The Brandy plant employs approximately 1,800 employees.
The Brandýs nad Labem plant’s most important products include a large-format curved OLED display. Production is highly automated and takes place in clean rooms that meet ISO 7 standards. The unique combination of Hybrid Bonding and Display Closing technologies ensures absolute precision of joints, quality of optical layers and final lamination.
“I am proud to be part of a new chapter for our plant. The creation of the AUMOVIO brand is not just a formal change, but also a confirmation of our ability to grow, innovate and set the direction of future mobility,” says Matthieu Turlure, CEO of the Brandýs nad Labem plant.
The Brandýs nad Labem plant is one of the largest in AUMOVIO and also confirms its role as a leader by its membership in the so-called Global Lighthouse Community, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.
The Global Lighthouse Network (GLN) brings together the world’s leading manufacturing companies that are actively using advanced technologies – from artificial intelligence and robotics to cloud and big data. GLN represents an international benchmark for the most advanced digital transformation. “Applying to GLN was a logical step. We wanted to verify that our digitalization path was the right one. It was a complex process and, like the digitalization itself, its preparation was a team effort,” says Michal Fichtner, Head of Digitalization Operations IE UX.
A private 5G network was implemented at the plant, which significantly speeds up communication between robots and enables the operation of autonomous vehicles. This is a key element of the strategy to become a fully digital factory according to the principles of Industry 4.0.
Key digitalization technologies at the plant include:
Of particular importance is AUMOVIO’s involvement in the RAASCEMAN project (Resilient and Adaptive Supply Chains for Capability-based Manufacturing as a Service Networks), which focuses on increasing the resilience and flexibility of manufacturing supply chains. The project, funded by the Horizon Europe program with 4.6 million euros over a period of three years (09/2024–08/2027), involves nine partners from six European countries from research institutions and industrial companies. The project coordinator is the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). One of the project partners is also the CIIRC CTU.
The aim of the project is to develop tools that analyze data from production and supply networks in real time and help respond to possible supply disruptions. The key concept is Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS), a network of interconnected manufacturing capacities that enables flexible production shifts and rapid replacement of failing suppliers. The solution also includes digital twins, artificial intelligence for production planning, and standardized data models that enable collaboration between different types of production.
AUMOVIO is a key industrial partner in the RAASCEMAN project, connecting research and technology activities with the real environment of modern production. Its main task is to ensure that the project results are verified in operation, practically applicable, and ready for future scaling into full production practice.
The Brandýs plant provides an exceptionally comprehensive testing environment consisting of an extensive production chain with interconnected lines covering the entire process from material preparation through assembly operations to final testing and shipping. In this dynamic environment, the robustness, stability and real benefit of all technological solutions developed within the project are verified. An important part of AUMOVIO’s role is also the validation of data models and algorithms through a digital twin, which allows for the simulation of various operational situations without interfering with ongoing production and confirming the accuracy of system outputs.
AUMOVIO also provides the project with detailed knowledge of the production environment, extensive data sets and expert input from the fields of process engineering, logistics, automation and ERP/MES integration. This enables the modeling of production processes, training of algorithms and their subsequent online verification in real time. AUMOVIO’s active participation is also essential in the implementation phase, where it provides ongoing feedback on the functionality of the solution, compares the project specifications with real results and helps adjust technologies so that they are fully compatible with production needs.
The Brandýs-based company AUMOVIO also sees the project as an opportunity to develop its own teams and technologies. “Thanks to cooperation with leading European development centers, AUMOVIO has the chance to develop its engineering teams and improve production processes to increase its competitiveness in the future,” says Jakub Hamerník, Smart Manufacturing Manager at AUMOVIO Brandýs.
The RAASCEMAN project closely cooperates with another European project, RICAIP (Research and Innovation Center for Advanced Industrial Production), which is coordinated by CIIRC CTU and uses the research infrastructure of European testbeds in Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken to verify solutions in a real industrial environment. RAASCEMAN tests its technologies on specific use cases of the automotive and cycling industries and creates the foundations for a more flexible, resilient and ecological European industry.
RICAIP Testbed Prague (CIIRC CTU) cooperates with AUMOVIO within the RAASCEMAN project to verify the practical applicability of tools for flexible and resilient manufacturing. The testbed provides access to advanced research infrastructure and allows for the simulation of production scenarios and possible supply chain disruptions, while AUMOVIO tests and applies the proposed solutions in a real environment.
“We have been cooperating with AUMOVIO for a long time. From smaller contract research orders, we have moved on to cooperation in two large projects, one is the European RAASCEMAN project focused on the resilience of production against supply chain disruptions, and the other is the Precise Layers project from the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic focused on advanced methods in robotic 3D printing,” explains Pavel Burget, Director of RICAIP Testbed Prague, and adds: “Thanks to this cooperation, we can not only consult the concepts verified in the RICAIP Testbed Prague, but also verify them with the AUMOVIO team in real industrial production conditions.”
Robotic workplace RICAIP Testbed Prague (CIIRC CTU) for the development and verification of flexible and resilient production. | Photo: CIIRC CTU
The project thus gives AUMOVIO access to a network of European testbeds of leading institutions, thereby supporting the sharing of knowledge, methodologies and data across Europe. This type of collaboration connects global industrial partners with leading scientists and academics, creating a synergistic effect that is much broader than local initiatives, and ensuring that research and innovation have a real impact on industrial practice on a wider scale. According to Jakub Hamerník, cooperation with CIIRC has another dimension: “It provides young engineers with a unique opportunity to gain a deep understanding of modern manufacturing processes, working with data, and practical aspects of industrial digitalization. By participating in projects such as RAASCEMAN, they learn to view production not only from a technical perspective, but in the context of the entire industrial ecosystem – from planning and automation to quality management to logistics and complex supply chains,” says Smart Manufacturing Manager AUMOVIO Brandýs.
