Smart Automotive Manufacturing

There has been a monumental shift in powertrain. Fuel-efficiency and emissions standards are a moving target, driven not only by legislation but eco-conscious drivers as well.

Today, traditional powertrain suppliers are investing more and more in EV technology. However, many are finding their processes were designed for single vehicle platforms and can’t adapt.

The future is yours, and fast, flexible powertrain operations are possible with an agile, information-driven infrastructure.

Current powertrain and drivetrains manufacturing systems can be unreliable. Meet consumer and market trends in real time with a flexible strategy that grows/adapts to your changing needs.

For instance, our pre-engineered Automation Solutions can simplify your powertrain machining cells and make them more productive. And, when you combine FANUC robots and CNCs with our cell controllers, you’ll spend less time specifying connections and reviewing equipment for compliance. Better still, this packaged solution allows data collection from multiple devices over one network.

Looking to reduce line balancing times? A flexible powertrain assembly system helps there too. With this system, you can:

• Quickly assign tasks, parts and tooling to stations
• Easily revise assembly workflow without reprogramming
• Conduct full-line error proofing before production launch

More choices for consumers mean a more complex manufacturing environment for you. And with that comes potential for inefficiencies and increased errors and costs.

But compromised performance is not inevitable. Get the speed, flexibility and confidence you need to make multiple models and variations under one roof with our automotive assembly solutions. We can work with you to optimize every step of assembly:

Body Shop: Is worker safety a concern? Utility costs? Our technology can help. It can also integrate data and machines across third-party equipment.

Paint Shop: Our solutions can help you better control your process parameters, optimize your supply chain, improve quality consistency and meet standards.

Final Assembly: We can work with you to solve challenges like parts management and sequencing, quality control, and workload leveling. Together, we can push the boundaries of what’s possible to create a more flexible, agile operation set to meet customer needs today, and tomorrow.

Tire Building, Where Rubber Meets Road

You can create productive, safe, flexible and easy-to-use tire building machines with our Integrated Architecture system. This high-performance system with integrated safety can help you:

• Synchronize machine sections such as wind-up and let-off
• Achieve tension and edge control
• Optimize cut-to-length accuracy, independent of machine speed
• Easily adjust to process changes such as tire dimensions
• Tire Curing, and Ready to Roll

Further leveraging our Integrated Architecture system, you can improve equipment utilization and productivity in this critical, capital-intensive process. Get immediate access to process details like trends, alarms, recipe data and energy consumption so you can make more data-driven decisions. And, you can pinpoint the cause of quality issues or production disruptions to help optimize curing processes.