Purpose A Swedish electric car manufacturer wanted to ensure that components manufactured by its entire supply chain would fit together before they were shipped for final assembly. ATS CM4D was the clear choice for its feature-rich dimensional data collection, reporting and analysis and for the experience and knowledge that ATS brought to the table [...]
Purpose The International Energy Agency has predicted that the number of electric vehicles around the world will grow from three million to a whopping 125 million by the year 2030. This presents a new set of challenges to automotive manufacturers, such as a supply chain shift away from internal combustion engines to batteries and [...]
Purpose Exide Technologies is one of the world's largest producers, and distributors of batteries. The challenge was to improve traceability, efficiency and quality across the entire manufacturing process: raw ingots, melting pots, lamination, milling, batch mixing, internal storage, assembly, charging, labelling, up to ready for shipment to customers. Project Scope In this deployment [...]
Purpose Control automated yard cranes from control centre remotely Enable exceptional handling of yard cranes Integrate with the existing ACOC (Automated Crane Operations and Control) system Project Scope Supply, deliver, install and commission 34 units of URCs Upgrade HMI programs to new version of Schneider Electric HMI Integrate with the current ACOC system and the aRMGs [...]
Purpose Augmented Reality (AR) is a versatile technology that has an ever growing number of uses, but one thing it needs in every situation is reliable, powerful data connectivity. That is why ATS Bus was chosen to serve as the Manufacturing Service Bus development platform for the VIVAR project at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) [...]
13 business benefits of performing a digital transformation of your visual inspection processes in the Automotive Industry. It's Time for a Change If you're still recording inspection results on paper before entering it in a spreadsheet, or receiving quality reports when the information is no longer useful, then your visual inspection processes could probably do [...]
Purpose This OEM customer, based in the US, needed to reduce the number of warranty claims they were receiving while also tackling the growing challenges of mass customization across the supply chain. To achieve this they wanted to carry out a digital transformation of their quality processes using a solution that would allow them to [...]
Purpose Insight into the real capacity of the factory Possibility to respond rapidly to changes Reduced Production Leadtime Reduced Production disturbances Improved Production Flow Project Scope Visualize and respect relationships between operations Provide Production Sequences per workcentre Speed up the scheduling process Integration with ERP/MRP to retrieve works-order data, stocks, etc. Solution Approach SIMATIC IT Preactor [...]
Purpose Improve adaptability of the scheduling system Improve scheduling performance Improve scheduling accuracy Project Scope Update to most recent version of SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced Scheduling Replace compiled custom functionality with flexible, human-readable configuration Solution Approach Update Preactor to most recent version to enable up-to-date integration methods Investigate and replace current .NET customizations with standard [...]
Purpose Upgrade automation system for customer's production line The plant produced 70 different car variants. The semi-automated system had 29 independent stations and 2 conveyors equipped with 30 control PCs and 2 servers. Project Scope Design, development, assembly and remote/on-site support of production line. Production processes for assembly of components in different steps and stages [...]
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