Making products for the automobile industry belongs to the premier class of industrial manufacturing: It is truly challenging to produce uncompromising quality in large numbers with zero defects and ensure full traceability despite a highly competitive pricing. Vitesco Technologies is among the innovators in this field with its Industry 4.0 strategy. A high level of digitalization, networking, automation, and the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) make the worldwide Vitesco Technologies plants perfect examples of an intelligent, sustainable production. More than 800 cobots are in use – collaborative robots which closely interact with human workers in a safe way to carry out particularly unergonomic tasks. Innovative AI solutions are employed in the area of quality control through automated visual parts inspection, they monitor processes and enable predictive maintenance of industrial facilities. AI is highly instrumental for utilizing data to optimize delivery and manufacturing processes, to achieve zero-defect quality and to increase economic efficiency – all the while speeding up production and bringing down raw material consumption. Modular, scalable products can be flexibly manufactured on a single production line thanks to Design for Manufacturing.