# Breaking Barriers: AI and EMS Collaboration with Zollner Elektronik AG and Luminovo

- Show: [EMS@C-LEVEL](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level)
- Published: 2024-06-11
- Length: 24m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2024-06-11-breaking-barriers-ai-and-ems-collaboration-with-zollner-elektronik-ag-and-lumino

## Summary

Xaver Feiner of Zollner Elektronik AG and Sebastian Schaal of Luminovo discuss their strategic partnership to digitize the EMS prototyping process. They explain how customer feedback drove the need for speed, leading to the deployment of Luminovo’s self-service platform for rapid samples. The conversation covers the balance between maintaining trusted B2B relationships and leveraging AI-driven digitization to reduce friction in quoting and production planning. They highlight the ease of supplier adoption via opt-in APIs and the integration of AI to streamline business processes by combining ERP and MES data.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2024-06-11-breaking-barriers-ai-and-ems-collaboration-with-zollner-elektronik-ag-and-lumino#t=0) Introduction: Xaver Feiner and Sebastian Schaal
- [0:53](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2024-06-11-breaking-barriers-ai-and-ems-collaboration-with-zollner-elektronik-ag-and-lumino#t=53) Zollner's Rapid Samples Collaboration with Luminovo
- [2:38](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2024-06-11-breaking-barriers-ai-and-ems-collaboration-with-zollner-elektronik-ag-and-lumino#t=158) Customer Adoption and Digitizing Prototyping
- [4:12](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2024-06-11-breaking-barriers-ai-and-ems-collaboration-with-zollner-elektronik-ag-and-lumino#t=252) Luminovo's Co-pilot Approach and B2B Balance
- [6:56](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2024-06-11-breaking-barriers-ai-and-ems-collaboration-with-zollner-elektronik-ag-and-lumino#t=416) Future Projects and User-Centered Process Design
- [9:25](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2024-06-11-breaking-barriers-ai-and-ems-collaboration-with-zollner-elektronik-ag-and-lumino#t=565) Expanding Self-Service to Serious Production
- [11:47](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2024-06-11-breaking-barriers-ai-and-ems-collaboration-with-zollner-elektronik-ag-and-lumino#t=707) Supply Chain Ecosystem and Opt-in APIs
- [16:21](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2024-06-11-breaking-barriers-ai-and-ems-collaboration-with-zollner-elektronik-ag-and-lumino#t=981) Zollner's Partnership Selection Criteria
- [18:56](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2024-06-11-breaking-barriers-ai-and-ems-collaboration-with-zollner-elektronik-ag-and-lumino#t=1136) Luminovo's Strategic Position with Zollner
- [22:06](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ems-c-level/2024-06-11-breaking-barriers-ai-and-ems-collaboration-with-zollner-elektronik-ag-and-lumino#t=1326) AI Integration: ERP, MES and Data Lakes

## Topics

- [Connected products & IoT](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/connected-products-and-iot)
- [Manufacturing partners & offshoring](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/manufacturing-partners)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Direct-to-consumer & e-commerce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/direct-to-consumer)
- [Sourcing & supply chain](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/sourcing-and-supply-chain)

## Most relevant to

large enterprises, early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Zollner Elektronik AG (company)
- Luminovo (company)
- Koh Young (company)
- Global Electronics Association (company)
- Tiki (company)

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