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Automotive manufacturing

Virtual vehicle production – secure, efficient, scalable

WinMOD enables the virtualisation of extensive manufacturing processes in automotive engineering. This allows you to carry out test runs, detect errors at an early stage and significantly reduce implementation and operating costs.

1. pressing plants
2. body shell
3. painting lines
4. Assembly of aggregate carrier
5. battery manufacturing
6. floor conveyor technology
7. Automatic component and body storage
8. SKID conveyor technology
9. electric monorail
10. Push SKID lines

pressing plants

Production area in which structural body parts and outer skin parts are produced from sheet metal coils or cut-to-size blanks (blanks) by cold or hot forming – from the raw blank to the ready-to-install formed part.

body shell

Assembles stamped/formed sheet metal parts, extruded and cast components into a dimensionally accurate body structure – with defined geometry, rigidity, crash and NVH performance as the basis for the paint shop and final assembly.

painting lines

Highly automated plant chains for surface pre-treatment, coating and curing of car bodies and add-on parts – designed for high throughput, reproducible appearance and corrosion protection.

Assembly of aggregate carrier

Pre-assembly of front/rear axle modules as carriers for chassis, steering and drive units such as combustion engines, powertrains or electric axles. Transport to the sequenced handover to the „marriage“ with the body.

battery manufacturing

Highly automated process chain for the manufacture of traction batteries – from electrode production to cell assembly and forming to module/pack assembly

floor conveyor technology

This area of technology encompasses conveyor systems that transport and sort pallets and mesh boxes containing automotive components. The conveyor elements are large roller and chain conveyors combined with lifting, rotating and shifting tables.

Automatic component and body storage

Fully automated high-bay warehouses, which are operated by light or heavy-duty storage and retrieval machines and controlled by distributed automation systems. Warehouse management systems generate the orders for storing and retrieving raw components or complete car bodies.

SKID conveyor technology

Ground-based conveyor technology in which car bodies or heavy modules are transported on standardised SKIDs (steel frames with vehicle-specific support points) through assembly, painting and buffer areas.

electric monorail

Overhead conveyor systems with electrically driven, individually controllable trolleys on monorail tracks for low or high loads (up to tonnes).

Push SKID lines

Ground-based conveyor technology in which car bodies or heavy assemblies are moved on platforms along rails. The drive is typically provided by friction wheels, push chain conveyors or push beams, which continuously push the SKIDs forward.