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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