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Success Case Study for Automotive Industry

FAW-Volswangen

The Foshan plant is FAW-Volkswagen’s 4th plant in China, which covers approximately 1.66 million m2. Currently it is the production base of FAW-Volkswagen with the most models on the same production line. During peak period, 2,400 cars are produced per day, involving tens of thousands of components. To handle complex picking tasks and improve efficiency and accuracy, the mobile robots solution was introduced.

BACK GROUND

The Foshan plant is FAW-Volkswagen's 4th plant in China, which covers approximately 1.66 million m2. Currently it is the production base of FAW-Volkswagen with the most models on the same production line. During peak period, 2,400 cars are produced per day, involving tens of thousands of components. To handle complex picking tasks and improve efficiency and accuracy, the mobile robots solution was introduced.

SOLUTIONS

The intelligent logistics system adopted at the Foshan plant is complicated, which integrated FAW-Volkswagen’s FIS and PLP, Hikrobot’s RCS and iWMS, along with 47 underriding mobile robots. It is the first “Supermarket 2.0” solution in the automobile industry, that made factory-level collaborative intelligent logistics system a reality.

Customer Benefit

Reduced manual work intensity by 30%
Improved efficiency and accuracy: 100% outbound accuracy in warehouse and 100% on-time supply of components between production lines
Real-time exchange of warehouse information
Less repeated planning work: supports dynamic inventory arrangement, intelligent load balancing

SMART FACTORY

Manufacturing, as the cornerstone of modern industry, is ushering a new era with the continuous integration of AI, big data, IoT and other high-tech. As the main area of manufacturing, smart factory is a new stage of modern factory development, the core of which lies in interconnection of production equipment and production scenarios, production process digitization and intelligent management, analysis and application of production data. With the upgrading equipment, complicated processes, increased labor costs and the digital management requirements, a new round of scientific and technological revolution aimed at smart factories is imperative.

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