Automotive

Our specialized technicians can provide expert consulting to design assembly or manufacturing systems. The engineering design will take into consideration possible partial or total line parallelizing if the single stations analyzed, albeit complete from a functional point of view, cannot meet the required production output. CASSIOLI’s experience, acquired in many years in the sector, can calculate the best trade off between the flexibility typical of parallel systems (line specialization, reduction of set-up times, greater production flexibility and operational reliability) and all the costs of the devices to be replicated (larger space requirements, more complex handling system, higher stock levels in workstations or increase in the material supply flows).

A thorough understanding of the flow of collecting pieces and of the components and/or serving kits for the stations is required to define the configuration of the line, with important repercussions on handling system operation. For example, the need to separate work flows among different workstations would impose the use of inter-operational buffers, thus creating specific functional requirements for the handling system. In special cases for which CASSIOLI has provided solutions, the line design was based on a study of the flow of the collecting piece and of the flow of the materials that supplied each assembly station (single components or kits).

In conclusion, each of our plant engineering solutions is the result of an accurate analysis of the piece to be produced and of flows in terms of the physical location (enumeration of in/out points and respective system handling) and of the temporal distribution imposed by the manufacturing schedule and planned supplies to each station.