Volkswagen Group 向逾 330,000 名員工部署 Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Corp. announced on October 21, 2026, that Volkswagen Group has equipped more than 330,000 employees across the company with Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft said the deployment is meant to help the automaker’s workforce raise productivity, make decisions faster and improve knowledge-based processes across the organization.

Sophie Vassarotti, Head of Group Data and AI at Volkswagen Group, said the rollout gives employees secure and trusted AI assistance that supports more efficient work and better-informed decisions. “The real value of AI comes from making it available at scale in everyday work,” she said in Microsoft’s announcement.

Phased Rollout and Usage Figures

The deployment is the latest step in what Microsoft described as Volkswagen Group’s deliberate, phased approach to AI adoption. The rollout began by giving employees broad access to AI-powered chat through Copilot Chat, and Volkswagen recorded upwards of 300,000 monthly active users on that platform, according to the announcement.

According to the announcement, employees currently use Copilot with Work IQ for more advanced productivity scenarios, placing AI more deeply inside core business processes that run from engineering and production to procurement and sales. Microsoft also reported that more than 26,000 agents were active across the Group during the month preceding the announcement.

Agnes Heftberger, Chair of the Management Board of Microsoft Germany, said the deployment embeds AI directly in employees’ day-to-day work, helping them raise productivity, make faster decisions and concentrate on higher-value tasks. She said Volkswagen demonstrates how a company can move AI beyond individual productivity uses and turn it into a foundation for future AI innovation.

Earlier Copilot Use in Vehicle Engineering

The company-wide deployment follows earlier, more targeted uses of Copilot inside Volkswagen Group’s engineering organization. A Microsoft customer story dated May 22, 2025, documents Volkswagen Group using Microsoft Copilot inside PTC’s Codebeamer, an application lifecycle management (ALM) platform, with AI tools powered by Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing capabilities.

According to the story, Codebeamer gives engineers tools to define, validate and trace requirements and tests across hardware components and millions of lines of code. Volkswagen turned to the platform as vehicle development grew more complex, with modern vehicles combining mechanical hardware, embedded software and sensor data processing, the story said.

Robert Kattner, Head of Volkswagen Group IT Engineering, said Codebeamer sees use across the entire Volkswagen Group, with active user numbers continuing to grow. “By having a copilot in the Codebeamer software, it can assist with creating new requirement specifications and test cases using our specific data and business context,” he said. He added that the copilot makes searching, analyzing and generating content inside the platform more efficient and effective.

The story also credits the AI assistance with reducing duplicated work, supporting compliance with existing engineering standards, and helping teams import requirement references from legacy IT systems. Ayora Berry, Vice President of AI Product Management at PTC, said that by managing those large volumes of data and supplying workflows for authoring, reviewing and validating requirements, Codebeamer customers can achieve time savings of as much as 20–40%. Berry described Microsoft as a partner supplying advanced technology, from AI tools like Azure OpenAI to enterprise IT systems with scalability and security.

Kattner said Volkswagen is excited about the collaboration because PTC and Microsoft bring deep ALM and AI software expertise, understand the company’s business and markets, and have consistently delivered software critical to its needs. He framed the collaboration as a way to prepare Volkswagen’s software development and vehicle engineering teams for future demands.

Expanded Collaboration and Scheduled AI Tour Session

Microsoft and Volkswagen Group also stated an intention to expand their collaboration and further scale the Intelligent Data Foundation, described in the announcement as the Group’s unified data ecosystem, on Microsoft Fabric. The stated aim is to make trusted data easier to locate, understand and use across the entire company.

The collaboration will be featured at the Microsoft AI Tour in Cologne, Germany, on October 22, 2026. Vassarotti and Rupert Stuetzle, general manager of manufacturing and mobility for EMEA at Microsoft, are scheduled to present a session on how Volkswagen Group is building group intelligence in the age of AI, beginning at 9:00 a.m. CEST in Lab 3, Hall 1.

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