Segmented Body Assembly System for the SMART Car Body Shop VA TECH Transport-und Montagesysteme GmbH

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Schupp, Gerhard, author.

Conference Name:

International Body Engineering Conference & Exposition (1999-09-28 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1999

Summary:

Increased international competition of automotive companies have lead to new approaches and concepts for the manufacturing processes, especially for body-in-white (BIW) manufacturing systems. The main issues are competitive cost advantages, shorter launch periods and quality of produced vehicles. The supplier acting as general contractor and the customer have applied a new approach for operating and engineering as well as installing a segmented BIW-system. This paper will present the conceptional approach based on an advanced operating concept to engineer and realize a competitive BIW-system

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Publisher Number:

1999-01-3241

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license