XXEngineering Consulting
Die ATN Hölzel GmbH ist Ihr zuverlässiger Partner für umfassende Lösungen aus den Bereichen Applikationstechnik, Automatisierung und Robotik. Unsere langjährige Erfahrung bei der Umsetzung von Automatisierungsvorhaben zeigt uns, dass die frühzeitige Involvierung unserer Spezialisten sich positiv auf die Laufzeiten in den Vergabe-, Ausschreibungs- oder Planungsphasen auswirkt.
History of our Engineering Consulting Department
2024
Process adaption of automated material supply
due to vehicle integration and no longer guaranteed clearance height for conveyor technology crossing
Characteristic: Process Analysis and definition of necessary adjustments to the existing system
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof reinforcement and insulation board
Degree of automation: Fully automatic loading/unloading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by robot
Location: Germany
Integration of larger vehicle types in existing plant
Characteristic: Feasibility analysis for conversion of existing system and new planning based on this
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof reinforcement and insulation board and windshield bonding plant
Degree of automation: Manual loading application, installation in the vehicle by worker with manipulator
Location: Mexiko
Improvement of the Process stability
Implementation of additional actuators and sensors in positioning and pressing equipment in the tightest of spaces
Characteristic: Installation space inspection
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Pre-assembly of roof reinforcement damping in full vehicle roof
Degree of Automation: manual loading/unloading, adhesive application by robot, semi-automatic pressing process, installation in vehicle by worker with manipulator
Location: Germany
Design of an automatic roof assembly system in an existing hall environment
Taking into account large vehicle and component dimensions as well as the column grid with a very limited system width
Characteristic: New Planning in Brown Field inclusive optimal process design in terms of accessibility and process times
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof mounting with screw connection
Degree of Automation: Fully automatic loading/unloading, installation in the vehicle by robots and bolting by up to 4 additional bolting robots
Location: Germany
Integration of new and significantly larger rear windows with support tracks
in existing plants with extremely limited space
Characteristic: Feasibility analysis of conversion of existing plant with process adaption and conclusions on product design
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Windshild bonding plant with optimized footprint and limited clear height
Degree of Automation: Manual loading/unloading with manipulator, activator and adhesive application by robot, installation in vehicle by worker with manipulator
Location: Germany
Relocation of component handling for pre-assembly processes within existing plant
From worker to additional robot in extremely confined spaces
Characteristic: Feasibility analysis for conversion of existing system with process adaption
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Windshild bonding plant with optimized footprint and limited clear height
Degree of automation:Manual loading/unloading with manipulator, activator and adhesive application by robot, installation in vehicle by worker with manipulator
Location: Germany
Integration of future vehicle types into existing system
Vehicle types with additional small windows in large window system
Characteristic: Feasibility analysis for conversion of existing system and, based on this, new planning and division of the windshields into these systems
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Windshield bonding
Degree of Automation: Manual loading, adhesive application, transportation of the windshields to the top floor, installation in the vehicle by worker with manipulator
Location: Germany
Conceptual Design of two gluing systems - Part II
Application and installation of large roofs to ensure redundancy with high cycle time requirements in a confined installation space
Characteristic: New Planning in the brown field including optimal process design in terms of accessibility and process times as well as comparison and recommendations for action
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Rood adhesive system with automatic shoring
Degree of Automation: Fully automatic loading/unloading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by robot
2023
Development of a system concept for automated application of activator and adhesive
For various vehicle roof types in the sports car sector with optimum use of cycle time and floor space
Characteristic: New planning in the brown field inclusive optimal process design with regard to accessibility and process times
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Windshield gluing
Degree of Automation: Fully automated loading/unloading, automated liner removal, activator and adhesive application by robot, installation in the vehicle by worker with manipulator
Location: Germany
Conceptual design of a strategy for the time-optimized installation of a gripper changing system
Installation in roof system using short conversion time windows with sageguarding of existing production
Characteristic: Feasibility analysis of conversion of existing system with integration of additional gripping devices and tool stations in already critically utilized robot rooms and preservation of accessibility, ease of maintenance and other aspects
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof gluing with automated installation
Degree of automation: automated tool change, fully automated loading/unloading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by robot
Location: Germany
Conceptual Design of two gluing systems - Part II
Application and installation of large roofs to
ensure redundancy with high cycle time requirements in a confined
installation space
Characteristic: New Planning in the brown field including optimal process design in terms of accessibility and process times as well as comparison and recommendations for action
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Rood adhesive system with automatic installation
Degree of Automation: Fully automatic loading/unloading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by robot
Location: Germany
Windshield and roof installation in 60s in one workstation
Pilot project
Characteristic: New planning in the green field as a scalabe system concept for application and installation of windshield, rear window and glass roof within one minute or one work cycle with two variants as a result
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof and windshield gluing system with automated installation
Type of Automation: fully automated loading/unloading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by robot
Location: Germany
Preliminary planning of bonding and assembly system
Combined glazing of front and rear windows
Characteristic: New planning in Green Field for innovative windshield shapes with special challenges in terms of accessibility and installation space resulting from very large component dimensions
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of plant: Windshield system with automatic installation
Degree of Automation: fully automatic loading/unloading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by robot
Location: Germany
Preliminary planning of foaming center
E-SUV with numerous foaming stations and large-volume cavities
Characteristic: New Planning in the green field with design for 2 or 4 robots, comparison of variants and recommendation for action with regard to accessibility and cycle time specifiations
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Foaming system for the application of acoustic foam in vehicle body shells
Degree of Automation: fully automatic
Location: Germany
Conceptual study of profile seal bonding
Fully automatic application of profile seals to van doors
Characteristic: New planning in the brown field, development of several semi-automatic and fully automatic concepts, comparison of variants and recommendation for action
Type of Plant: Robot system for the application of acoustic foam in vehicle body shells
Degree of Automation: semi-automatic and fully automatic removal/loading from the hanger, seal application on stationary device, semi-automatic and fully automatic return to the hanger
Location: Spain
Integration of a large glass roof lid into an existing pop-up roof system
Characteristic: Feasibility analysis for conversion of existing system and derivation of measures
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof gluing system
Degree of Automation: manual loading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by worker with manipulator
Location: Slovakia
Replacement procurement of existing two-story glass gluing systems
Study
Characteristic: Feasibility analysis for upgrading existing systems and upgrading to additional functions, including comparison of variants and resulting new planning of additional systems to ensure functionality
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Windshield gluing systems
Degree of Automation: Semi-automatic and fully automatic removal/loading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by worker with manipulator or automated by robot
Location: Germany
Cycle time optimization of window gluing system
With cycle times already at the limit
Characteristic: Potential analysis for complex nested system processes with high and widely networked interdependencies and derivation of meaningful packages of measures to save cycle time
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Windshield gluing systems
Degree of Automation: manual loading, activator and adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by robot
Location: Germany
Integration of a new vehicle into various gluing systems of a production line
Characeteristic: Feasibility study inclusive process analysis and evaluation of integration scopes
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Window gluing, roof gluing and installation, Fascia bonding systems
Degree of Automation: manual loading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by worker with manipulator or automated by robot
Location: Germany
2022
Window and roof shoring in 60s with direct application before installation
Pilot project
Characteristic: New planning in the green field as a scalabe system concept for application and installation of windshield, rear window and glass roof within one minute or one work cylce with application of the adhesive seams directly on the body including risk assessment
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof and windshield bonding system with automatic installation
Degree of automation: Fully automatic loading/unloading, adhesive application directly onto the body, installation in the vehicle by robot
Location: Germany
Design of a setting gauge for manipulator for roof handling
Characteristic: Analysis of existing design of equipment and environment and creation of an integration concept for process-reliable adjustment of actuators with several degrees of freedom
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof gluing system
Degree of Automation: Manipulator handling by workers/maintenance staff
Location: Germany
Cycle time halving for multi-part roofs
Gluing and assembly system
Characteristic: Process and potential analysis with derivation of necessary control measures inclusive validation by process simulation
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Rood gluing system with automated installation
Degree of Automation: fully automatic loading/unloading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by robot
Location: Germany
Foaming System on a steel construction platform
E-SUV with numerous foaming stations and large-volume cavities
Characteristic: New planning in the green field with design for 2 or 4 robots, comparison of variants and recommendation for action with regard to achievability and cycle time specifications as well as load estimation
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Foaming system for the application of acoustic foam in vehicle body shells
Degree of Automation: Fully automatic
Location: Slovakia
Roof gluing system in 55s cycle time
For large roofs with adhesive bead accumulation
Characteristic: Design of two twin roof systems with upstream support bead application on the body to achieve the maximum possible output with simultaneous redundancy
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof gluing system with automatic installation
Degree of Automation: automatic loading/unloading, adhesive application on vehicle and roof, installation in vehicle by robot
Location: China
Standard side window gluing system with integrated large window roof gluing
Characteristic: Conceptual design of a glass gluing system with extremely different products to be processes, making optimum use of the available space
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Side window and roof gluing system
Degree of Automation: Automated tool change, manual loading/unloading, adhesive application onto products, Installation in the vehicle by worker with manipulator
Location: China
Integration of a new vehicle into various gluing systems of a production line
Characteristic: Feasibility study inclusive process analysis and evaluation of integration scopes
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Window gluing system and panel gluing systems
Degree of Automation: manual loading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by the worker with manipulator
Location: China
Fully automatic wheel assembly
With high product variance including wheel conveyor technology from loading in the factory and rework stations
Characteristic: Feasibility study inclusive process analysis for the new construction of a higly complex system inclusive bin-picking and component conveying through the system with up to 20 development steps and comparison of variants
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Wheel Assembly
Degree of Automation: Fully automated parts transport, provision of screw material and assembly on the vehicle
Location: USA
2021
Insertion of a second bonding system for future type integrations
In already spatially highly critical systems
Characteristic: Installation space analysis for the integration of additional towers, dosing units and pumps in existing systems, including process analysis and risk assessement
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Windshield gluing
Degree of Automation: Manual loading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by worker with manipulator
Location: Germany and South Africa
Installation of a so called helicoper windshield in the vehicle with development of the entry curve
Study
Characteristic: Installation space analysis inclusive simulation in CAD with conclusions on product development before B release
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Windshield gluing
Type of Automation: Automatic installation in the vehicle using robots
Location: Germany
Automatic Polishing machines for the surface finish of grand pianos
Technology research
Characteristic: Patent, Literature and internet research on the current state of the art with survey and consideration of necessary technologies for the automation of current manual processes
Area: General Industry - Production of musical instruments
Type of Plant: Polishing system
Degree of Automation: open
Location: Germany and Czech Republic
Installation of bonded large roof and mounting of battery inspection cover on rear seat carrier
System combination
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof bonding with automatic installation and assembly with automated screwing
Degree of Automation: fully automatic loading/unloading, adhesive application and roof, automated installation in the vehicle by robot
Location: Germany
Halving of cycle time of a gluing and assembly system for vehicle interior rear panels
Characteristic: Process and potential analysis with derivation of necessary control measures inclusive validation by process simulation
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Gluing system with automatic installation
Degree of Automation: Fully automatic loading/unloading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by robot
Location: Germany
Palletizing of pipe ring bundles
Using industrial robots with high product variance
Characteristic: Technology research and development of a system concept for relocating palletizing from the worker to the robot, taking into account the confluence of several lines and material flows in the system including recommendations for action
Area: General Industry - construction and packaging
Type of Plant: Order picking system
Degree of automation: Fully automated parts provision and palletizing
Location: Germany
2020
Semi-automated windshield bonding system over two levels
Including loading of the bonded large windows on the vehicle
Characteristic: Development of a new assembly concept for the application of an accumulation of adhesive beads with two robots on a glass roof located in the gripper of a third robot across two system levels to save cylce time
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof bonding system with automatic installation
Degree of automation: fully automatic loading/unloading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by robots
Location: Germany
Footprint-critical roof bonding system for integration into existing cell system
Characteristic: Development of an assembly concept with optimal use of space with intervention in neighboring systems and conveyor technology
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Roof Bonding system with automatic installation
Degree of Automation: Fully automatic loading/unloading, adhesive application, installation in the vehicle by robot
Location: Germany
Integration and adaption of systems for surface cleaning in pre-assembly lines
Plasma cleaning of plastic tailgates with automatic loading/unloading
Characteristic: Analysis of the required conveyor technology profile and combination with adapted existing systems and derivation of further measures and boundary conditions
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Cleaning system with automatic loading
Degree of automation: Fully automatic loading/unloading, plasma treatment, ejection
Location: Germany
Combination of selected assembly tasks to create a modular showcase production in final assembly
Characteristic: Layout and process development of a universal concept for the realization of over 30 automated assembly operations in almost all areas in and around the vehicle, divided into 6 cells including design aspects (duration 3 months)
Area: OEM Automotive
Type of Plant: Various bonding systems and assembly systems
Degree of automation: fully automatic landing, removal, application and installation by robots
Location: South East Asia
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