Bentley Motors has turned to Capgemini to help reshape its UK operations as the luxury carmaker pushes deeper into a long-running digital overhaul of its Crewe factory.
According to the companies, the consulting group is providing digital infrastructure and systems integration to support Bentley’s move towards more intelligent manufacturing, with particular emphasis on strengthening AI and data-handling capabilities. The work is intended to bring back-office systems into clos...
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The project sits within Beyond100+, Bentley’s 15-year transformation programme, which is due to run until 2035. The manufacturer has previously said the initiative is designed to help secure the future of the Crewe plant and its workforce, and it is now approaching the midpoint of that plan.
Capgemini said the technologies it is supplying are meant to support employees as they adapt to new digital tools and processes. In broader terms, the company describes its intelligent operations and manufacturing services as a way to build smarter value chains, improve supply-chain performance and embed data-driven decision-making into industrial processes.
For Bentley, the benefits are expected to extend beyond the factory floor. Capgemini said the systems should improve customer and commercial insight, create more user-focused IT environments, reduce costs and provide a firmer base for data-led operations.
Rob Pears, Capgemini’s UK head of Manufacturing, Automotive and Life Sciences, said Bentley’s transformation ambitions present “exciting opportunities to drive innovation through data and AI”. Bentley board member for finance and IT Axel Dewitz said partnerships are important to advancing Beyond100+ and added that the integration work with Capgemini “is progressing smoothly”.
The tie-up comes as manufacturers increasingly use AI, industrial data and connected systems to modernise production, sharpen efficiency and improve sustainability. Capgemini has been expanding that pitch across the sector, including through wider industrial manufacturing and digital manufacturing services, as it seeks to position itself in the market for so-called intelligent industry transformation.
Source: Noah Wire Services
