Building an AI-Native Organization for Truck Assembly And R&D

Every truck carries more than 1,000 distinct component types and roughly 75,000 individual parts before it ever reaches final assembly. This group designs and owns the system that tracks all of it — supplier to dock to line — so nothing holds up the assembly line in Antwerp.

The job doesn't stop at build. This team also owns the integrated, full-lifetime process that keeps a Windrose truck repairable and refurbishable for its entire duty life — the difference between a truck that holds its residual value and one that doesn't.

Longer term, it's responsible for localizing the supply chain in Europe, starting with the highest-value electric powertrain components: the e-axle, battery packs, and battery cells.

• Component and parts tracking across 1,000+ types, ~75,000 parts per truck
• Full-lifecycle build, repair, and refurbishment process design
• Residual value and full-cycle productivity engineering
• European localization of e-axle, battery pack, and battery cell supply

Highway autonomy for heavy trucks — sensor fusion and ADAS validation that starts on the assembly line and has to hold up in North Sea fog as reliably as it does on a closed test track.

• Sensor fusion and perception stack validation
• ADAS testing on EU closed tracks and public highway pilots
• Fail-safe behavior validated before trucks leave assembly
• Platform architecture built toward higher levels of autonomy

Every truck ships with a live link back to Antwerp from the moment it leaves the assembly line — fleet uptime dashboards, OTA update pipelines, and remote diagnostics running on Orange's 5G V2X network across Europe.

It also covers Plug & Charge — ISO 15118-20 automatic charging authentication built with Hubject, so a driver plugs in and charging just starts, no app, no card.

And it owns compliance with UN R155 and R156 — the cybersecurity management and software update management regulations that are now mandatory for vehicle type approval in the EU.

• Fleet telematics: uptime dashboards, OTA pipelines, remote diagnostics
• Plug & Charge (ISO 15118-20) with Hubject
• UN R155 cybersecurity management system compliance
• UN R156 software update management system compliance

Windrose Power reuses the same cells, BMS, and pack engineering already running down the truck assembly line to build stationary storage. This group scales that second product without pulling assembly or engineering attention off the first.

It's a genuinely dual-purpose pack: the same cells that move a truck can also store power for a grid that's already stretched — including Belgium's, where Windrose Power is working with VLEEMO on tying stationary storage into the wind capacity already built at the Port of Antwerp.

• Cell sourcing and qualification across battery chemistries
• BMS and pack assembly shared across truck and stationary lines
• Stationary storage system design for Windrose Power
• Grid integration with local wind capacity, in partnership with VLEEMO