Austin, Texas, United States, April 23rd, 2025, FinanceWire
- Ford Otosan has moved a hybrid-quantum application into production to optimise the sequencing of its highly customisable Ford Transit vehicles.
- Built on D-Wave’s annealing quantum computing technology, the application cuts scheduling time by over 80%.
- Ford Otosan uses the quantum optimisation solution to manage vehicle variability, labour constraints and shop-floor dependencies more effectively than classical computing approaches alone.
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave”), a provider of quantum computing systems, software and services, has announced that its technology is now running in a live manufacturing environment at Ford Otosan’s production facility in Turkey. The hybrid-quantum application is designed to optimise the manufacturing sequence for Ford Transit vehicles, which are built in thousands of different configurations to meet customer specifications (https://ibn.fm/UgxSP).
Ford Otosan is a joint venture between Ford Motor Company and Koç Holding and is the largest commercial vehicle production hub in Ford’s European network. It builds over 700,000 vehicles a year, among them the highly customisable Ford Transit line. The complexity of this model line, featuring…
About D-Wave Quantum Inc.
D-Wave develops and delivers quantum computing systems, software and services. It describes itself as the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers and the only company building both annealing and gate-model quantum computers. Its stated mission is to help customers realise the value of quantum, today. Its 5,000+ qubit Advantage(TM) quantum computers, the world’s largest, are available on-premises or via the cloud, supported by 99.9% availability and uptime. More than 100 organisations trust D-Wave with their toughest computational challenges. With over 200 million problems submitted to the Advantage and Advantage2(TM) systems to date, customers apply the technology to use cases spanning optimisation, artificial intelligence, research and more. Further detail on realising the value of quantum computing today, and on how the company is shaping the quantum-driven industrial and societal advancements of tomorrow, is available at www.dwavequantum.com.
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