V4Smart: From Greenfield to Digital Factory in 10 Months
Most manufacturers don't lack data. They lack data they can trust and act on in real time. V4Smart, the battery cell joint venture of Porsche and VARTA, solved this from day one: it designed the digital backbone before the legacy began.
Cybus & V4Smart Cybus & V4Smart
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In 10 months, V4Smart went from greenfield to an operational digital production environment. Today it produces more than 620,000 cells per week across two sites, with 3,500 parameters and 1,500 real-time quality checks per cell and 60 TB of data per day.
One Industrial Data Layer for MES, SAP and Cloud
At the core is a unified data integration layer (Connectware). Machines are integrated once, data follows one common model, and MES, SAP, AWS and analytics use the same data. Instead of asking which machine produced the scrap, V4Smart asks what happened to this product, and why. The result: 35% less scrap since January 2026.
What You Will Learn in This Expert Talk
Dr. Willem Grobler (V4Smart) and Peter Sorowka (Cybus) share:
How the architecture was built in 10 months
Three examples: scrap reduction, automated product audits, first pass rate
Five lessons for brownfield plants and multi-site networks
For decision-makers in automotive and discrete manufacturing. Includes live Q&A.
Questions answered in the webinar
How do you get a new factory to digital production in 10 months without putting the start of production at risk?
How does real-time transparency translate into 35% less scrap?
How do you avoid hundreds of one-off integrations that become tomorrow's legacy?
How do you turn connectivity into configuration, so a new use case doesn't mean a new IT project?
What can a brownfield plant or a multi-plant manufacturer take from a greenfield project?
Our Experts
Willem Grobler, V4SmartV4Smart
Dr. Willem Grobler, Head of Production Technology, V4SMART GmbH & Co. KG
Dr. Willem Grobler is responsible for production technology, automation and AI in electrode and cell manufacturing. He brings more than 27 years of experience in the automotive and battery industries. As Director of Quality Europe at AESC, he oversaw two gigafactories in the UK and France. Before that, he led the Fisker Ocean production ramp-up and spent 17 years at the BMW Group, including on digital factory concepts.
About V4Smart:
V4Smart is a company based in southern Germany (V4Smart GmbH & Co. KG) that specializes in the development and manufacture of high-performance lithium-ion cells, which are characterized by their fast-charging capability and exceptional acceleration.
Peter Sorowka, CybusCybus
Peter Sorowka, Co-CEO, Cybus GmbH
Peter Sorowka is an expert in Industrial IoT and in the technical architectures that make production data usable for Industrial AI and Physical AI. Since founding Cybus in 2015, he has spent more than ten years helping manufacturers like Porsche, V4Smart and Claas build the secure, governed data foundation needed to bring AI safely and reliably into production.
About Cybus:
Cybus builds the governance layer for the AI-enabled shopfloor. Since 2015, manufacturers like Liebherr, Miele and Claas have run their most critical production environments on Cybus Connectware – the digital infrastructure that controls what every machine, system or AI agent can see, act on and trace across their factories. Cybus Connectware integrates any machine or system regardless of protocol, scales across unlimited sites and enforces access, audit and compliance at every data flow. Cybus builds what manufacturing runs on – and what keeps it accountable.
