Red Sofa Interview: Material control is BMW's next frontier for AI at Plant Spartanburg

Oliver Bilstein, BMW Spartanburg

Oliver Bilstein, who leads logistics for BMW’s manufacturing in the US, points to new technology and automation to increase flexibility in production and supply chain.

Hear more about the artificial intelligence tools that BMW is introducing into its material and production control processes, about autonomous logistics technology, and the investments and changes at Plant Spartanburg to build electric vehicles and batteries. 

Oliver Bilstein, vice-president of production control, ;ogistics and material control at BMW Manufacturing in the US joins editor-in-chief Christopher Ludwig on the Automotive Logistics Red Sofa. 

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