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Dürr Delivers One of the Biggest Paint Shops to SAIC Volkswagen Despite all the restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Dürr handed over one of the biggest paint shops in China to SAIC Volkswagen right on schedule.
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ürr has supplied to SAIC Volkswagen joint venture (SVW) plant
How the project came to be
near Shanghai all of the plant engineering as well as the most
In order to bring this project to life, mechanical engineering and the
comprehensive portfolio yet of its proprietary DXQ software
IT department worked in synergy right from the beginning: the digital
products.
solutions were developed in parallel with planning and implementing
The new plant in Anting, which produces various electric models and
the comprehensive plant engineering – from the RoDip® dip coating
conventionally powered vehicles, has a production capacity of 120
system through paint booths with EcoDryScrubber dry separation to the
bodies per hour – twice that of a standard paint shop – and features
oven and the air pollution control. Over the 18-month project duration,
a smart painting line that records around 3,500 digital data points for
six international product development teams from Dürr worked with up
every individual body alone. Moreover, sensors supply many gigabytes
to ten developers in each case on the new technologies.
of data in the form of process values for, i.e., temperature, pressure,
To ensure a smooth IT installation in China, all the software functions
and humidity – information that is useful to increase the overall
were first tested in the Dürr headquarters in Bietigheim-Bissingen in a
equipment effectiveness (OEE) of a paint shop.
test environment that faithfully replicated the conditions in Anting.
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