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zenon - Greater flexibility in production at BMW (Germany)
The flexible storage and conveyor system in BMW‘s Dingolfing plant picks up all the doors from the assembly line and reunites them with the bodies at the right moment. This storage system, whose display requirements are handled by zenon, boasts a minimal space requirement whilst at the same time offering excellent flexibility.
During recent years the automotive industry has been transformed, and the final assembly phase has changed even more than others: the number of different vehicle models has increased, and a vehicle must be delivered to the customer as soon as possible after the order is placed. This is made possible by ensuring that production personnel are highly qualified and that production plants are regularly modernised or replaced. In the assembly section at BMW’s Dingolfing plant - the Group’s largest production facility which produces around 1,200 vehicles every day - several thousand components are assembled to create a finished vehicle. zenon also forms part of the assembly facilities. This software is used for automation and visualisation of a conveyor system in the assembly plant.
Conveyor system professionals optimise the plant’s internal logistics
The company Staudinger GmbH supplies the software and the entire control system for the door conveyor system. Staudinger has developed a suitable custom solution for operation and visualisation based on COPA-DATA’s zenon. This software depicts the entire system. This company, which is based in Loiching (near Dingolfing) was founded as long ago as 1950, and now specialises in three fields: control systems, plant and mechanical
engineering, and simulation modelling. Staudinger has around 150 employees, and produces solutions for challenging openand closed-loop control tasks in all types of automation systems. This was the first time that Staudinger had worked on such a large product with zenon from COPA-DATA. Another partner in the project was the company Rofa Rosenheimer Förderanlagen GmbH, which specialises in automated conveyor systems for material flow and manufacturing.
