Porsche seeks broader industrial opportunities
Renowned German sports car maker Porsche hopes to break the mould on industrial digitalisation by forming a business unit to improve internal operations along with boosting its work with other sectors and companies.
Porsche Technologies is being formed by combining the company’s current engineering and digital units, a marriage deputy chair Dr Michael Steiner said would deliver the best of both worlds.
Steiner said the unit would “play a central role” in Porsche’s own “strategic development activities and in its business with other automotive and industrial customers”.
Sectors including space, maritime, defence and medical technology were listed as potential targets.
The company aims to launch Porsche Technologies early in Q2 2027 to provide services spanning development of hard and software through to validation of digital and physical products.
Porsche stated AI and data systems would play important roles in the work of the business, particularly for process optimisation.
Current Porsche Engineering CEO Markus-Christian Eberl (pictured, centre) is to head the new division.
Porsche Digital CEO Stefan Zerweck (pictured, left) is to become the CTO, with engineering unit CFO and COO Dirk Philipp (pictured, right) to occupy the same roles in the new business.
Staff numbers for the combined division stand at around 2,700, located at sites throughout Europe, the US and China.
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