Automobile Manufacturing

The sophisticated "performance" of automation according to public perception still takes place in the automobile industry. And here besecke is present: three, four, five different car types in one single production line. Shortly before the end of the production the robot bends itself through the trunk door of the station wagon far into the car's interior. Here the compartment for the spare wheel, here for the compact spare tyre, here the particularly deep compartment for equipping the vehicle with natural gas propulsion.

In each case, the robot reaches to the correct cavity as if guided by a ghost's hand and accurately fits the equipment to the very last millimetre into the opening in the body of the car. Only an example of the many operational ranges of besecke automation: in the periphery of the robots, at the visualisation systems, at the interfaces to the production data systems.

However, the real "performance" for the besecke employees takes place at the model change, production conversion or its modification.This intervention in running systems requires absolute knowledge of the technical history.

When modernisations planned long in advance, model changeovers, or scheduled repairs have to be made on long weekends, during plant shutdowns, or extra-long weekend due to holidays, the besecke automobile specialists have already completed a great portion of their work: the planning of sensors, motors and controls on a general scale, the extensive notation of interfaces to the existing systems and checking the electrical construction plans for their authenticity.

When the assembly system and the balancing of more than a thousand wheels are being changed over and modernised, a central point of the automobile manufacturing is affected. Production stoppage or delays should simply not occur.

The five employees at the besecke branch in Emden look back on a number of decades of automation experience at the Emder VW-factory. And still routine remains rather rare: the production lines, the high bay storage or the electrical engineering in other factory systems continuously create new challenges. Here, reliability is the most important component. When the production stands still in only one small area of the car factory, the impact is great within only a few hours.

In the automobile industry, besecke is operating on behalf of the car company as well as a subcontractor of the production line suppliers: evidence for the particular reliability of the besecke systems.