Ford Otosan Deploys Vehicle Manufacturing Application Built with D-Wave Quantum Inc.’s (NYSE: QBTS) Technology
Ford Otosan has deployed into production a hybrid-quantum application to optimize production sequencing for its highly customizable Ford Transit vehicles. The application, developed with D-Wave’s annealing quantum computing technology, reduces scheduling time by over 80%. Ford Otosan is using the quantum optimization solution to help manage vehicle variability, labor constraints, and shop-floor dependencies more effectively than by using just classical computing approaches. D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, announced that its technology is being deployed in a live manufacturing environment at Ford Otosan’s production facility in Turkey. The hybrid-quantum application is…