SMART AUTOMATION

FOR MORE EFFICIENCY, RESILIENCE, AND SUSTAINABILITY

 

High process reliability, low error rates, stable supply chains, and CO2 reduction –at competitive costs: All of these factors are key requirements for today’s manufacturing of vehicle electrical systems. Our answer: Networked production with a high degree of automation, coherent product design, and intelligent process technology.

Since 2012, we have been successfully automating the manufacturing of low-voltage and high-voltage wire harnesses as series – setting standards for efficiency, resilience, and sustainability in wiring harness production. 

Automation – This Drives Us

Why we are consistently pushing ahead with the automation of wiring harness production? Because technical precision, process stability, and economic independence, combined with CO2 reduction, have long been crucial for success.

Miniaturized plug systems place strict limits on manual processing while automated plugging facilitates consistently high quality. A synchronized material flow throughout in our automated systems reduces error rates and ensures maximum process reliability. 

At the same time, we gain independence from labor cost fluctuations – and thus flexibility in site selection. This way, manufacturing can take place in closer proximity to customers, logistics costs and CO2 emissions can be reduced. All in all, it increases our supply chains’ resilience – truly an advantage in volatile markets.

Product Design as the Key to Automation

The clearer the structure of the wire harness, the greater its automation potential– in the low-voltage sector, product design is the decisive factor. 

Our development is aimed at constructing complex wire harnesses in a modular manner, reducing the number of wires, and keeping material variations as low as possible – without compromising function or quality.

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Process Technology Makes the Difference

In the high-voltage sector, the degree of automation is determined not by design but by mastering complex processes. Safety-critical requirements and customer-specified plug generations call for accurate and precisely coordinated manufacturing steps. 

Our industrial engineering meticulously defines each individual process step – from cutting to length to shield processing to housing assembly. Development and implementation are carried out using interlinked multi-station systems – reliably automated, precisely timed, and economically viable. 

This allows us to implement the manufacturing steps that are critical in terms of quality safely and precisely – a must-have for safe e-mobility given the high voltages and currents involved.