Automated Assembly of Lightweight Automotive Components

Abstract The assembly of large lightweight components indicates a high rate of manual assembly operations. For a higher degree of automation the Institute of Manufacturing Automation and Production Systems develops systems for complete-assembly. The aim of complete-assembly of large components is to reduce the number of process steps. Failure-tolerant assembly systems are used to detect deviations of process influencing parameters and react independently to them. Both concepts are designed to create robust, shortened process sequences to reduce the costs of production and to improve quality.