Automotive

Purpose A global car manufacturer was on a mission to perfect its robotic welding and painting process. It wanted to achieve this by utilising an automated self-correction process that would produce high quality assembly welds with no defects. Project Scope The project was centered around the creation of a robust system to monitor events and [...]

Due to the exceptional quality and service that the ATS Dimensional Engineering group has provided, it has been awarded a repeat three year contract with a major automotive customer. ATS has an ongoing order with the customer for our onsite engineering services as well as the rental of our dimensional scanning equipment. This order covers [...]

ATS has received a substantial order for ATS CM4D software at two plants in the USA and Mexico. This is the second phase of an ongoing ATS ADOS implementation at the customer which currently uses Inspect at three of its plants. Two of the plants will now deploy ATS CM4D within the warehouse to analyze [...]

For this deployment US based electric carmaker has chosen ATS CM4D which compares the fit of two mating parts and allows them to apply “virtual shims”. This combination of features is unique to ATS CM4D as well as a wealth of other features comparing the virtual design to the actual physical product, the ability to [...]

Customer's Engine and Powertrain Plant in Turkey manufactures engines which are sent to their other facilities internationally. A project was recently completed to make ATS Inspect the standard visualisation platform of their door to door processes allowing them to see the full details of all their production and pin point the root cause of problems [...]

4 out of 10 largest 2013 automobile producing companies are using ATS’s products in their quality management and reporting: 1. Toyota- Vehicles Produced (2013): 10,104,424 2. General Motors- Vehicles Produced (2013): 9,285,425 3. Volkswagen- Vehicles Produced (2013): 9,254,742 4. Hyundai- Vehicles Produced (2013): 7,126,413 5. Ford- Vehicles Produced (2013): 5,595,483 6. Nissan- Vehicles Produced (2013): [...]

In 2004 Honda of America implented CM4D as an enterprise solution.Immediately thereafter Honda experienced a significant reduction in problems related to part quality, achieving an 85% reduction in build issues on the 2007 Accord vehicle program. This year, two of Honda’s vehicles (CR-V and Ridgeline) were ranked highest in their segments in the JD powers initial [...]

Volvo Car Corporation implemented CM4D software as an enterprise solution in 2001 across its three major facilities in Europe and 2 plants in Asia.In 2008, they implemented it at an additional facility in Chongqing, China. Volvo is notable for its extensive use of the CM4D Interactive interface, which has allowed them to achieve an almost paperless [...]

Kistler/Chrysler FD-SPC Project When you’re producing engines at a rate of one every 96 seconds you can’t leave process control to the end of line inspections. You need to detect when a fault occurs as soon as it happens and take immediate action or you end up with a very large amount of scrap. Earlier [...]

When Paccar were faced with quality issues on their truck bodies, they looked to ATS to review their ideas and turn them into reality. The problem was that the operation to apply the seals to the top of the trucks was prone to accidents and damaged body shells resulted.Full automation was not an option due [...]