zenon brings precision to a manufacturing operation at BMW (Germany)

Welding, bonding, riveting, screwing - in vehicle body construction several hundred components are combined to form a single finished product. Nowadays industrial robots and state-of-the-art technology ensure that vehicle bodies can be produced to the most precise specifications. zenon is an automation and visualisation tool, representing production processes in detail and offering control of all aspects of these processes.

With a degree of automation of between 90 and 95 per cent, vehicle body construction represents the most automated area of automotive production. Industrial robots finish the individual components from sheet aluminium or sheet steel here. The sheet metal components of a vehicle bodyshell are first joined to form smaller assembly groups such as doors, front section or floor assembly, then welded, bonded or screwed together. A vehicle body consists of several assembly groups that are manufactured in advance on separate welding lines.

Increasing automation in the automotive industry means that production plants and systems must be monitored and controlled ever more efficiently. Moreover, as the degree of automation increases, more and more data is produced that needs to be analyzed quickly and with great precision. This is why zenon is of such interest to the automotive industry. The BMW Group has been using zenon in different divisions and plants since 1999 - and now it is introducing zenon in vehicle body construciton too.

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