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Paint shop of the future – flexible, sustainable and scalable Andrej Capek Model series and application processes are becoming more diverse in today’s automotive manufacturing. A greater variety of automotive models painted on one line leads to process inefficiencies. Globally as well as in Southeast Asia, we are seeing greater demand for more flexible and scalable paint shops as customers want to integrate new models, such as e-vehicles, more easily into existing systems. At the same time, market developments are not always predictable. Scalable paint shops allow customers to customise their volumes. Manufacturers must respond more quickly to customer and market requirements. Dürr’s new “Paint shop of the future” concept breaks away from the traditional line layout, splitting up industrial automotive painting into boxes or short process sections for the first time. This introduces a new level of flexibility in the automotive industry’s processes and investments. In addition, the "Paint shop of the future" saves time and materials, increases availability, and makes painting more sustainable.
MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY WITH ON-DEMAND CYCLE TIMES The “Paint shop of the future” concept is based on splitting up the 120 work steps involved in a painting process into distinct boxes and smaller sections. Instead of following a fixed cycle, the process times in each box are precisely tailored to the unique needs of each body. This adaptability is achieved through parallel processes within the boxes, in conjunction with a central highbay base storage system and the automated guided vehicle (AGV) system EcoProFleet.
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DXQcontrol software controls the fleet of AGVs. It intelligently guides the AGVs with car bodies to the next process, ensuring efficient utilisation of all boxes. It enables the bodies to be sorted for future processes, delivered, and collected from the right workstation with pinpoint accuracy, and passed on to final assembly in the sequence planned by the manufacturer. The concept also allows for easy capacity expansion and seamless integration of new models.
