Automotive

New pressures have led to radical changes in the automotive industry. Automakers have outsourced much of their labor, while tier providers have become responsible for more completely sub-assembled components than ever before. But increased competition and falling profits mean that even greater efficiency and accountability will be required. Technology provides the key.

Automotive

Industry Solutions

Create a complete history of your manufacturing process to maintain quality and production operation with long term accessibility for quality containment.

Build to order using our Proficy Tracker to facilitate on-time and in-sequence product delivery to OEMs.

Powerful monitoring tools to alarm, dispatch and calculate overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Improve equipment utilization and reduce downtime, missed sequences and capital expenditures.

Wireless, call pendant mechanism for moving bulk material through assembly, reducing work-in-process inventory and providing real-time execution and monitoring of the system.

Proactive plant wide maintenance management systems providing repair and resolution history along with preventive measures to reduce costs and downtime. Get better asset performance and stop problems before they happen.

A central repository for your control programs to validate proper production controls and avoid downtime due to lost or wrong versions.

Machining, assembly and material handling solutions designed to meet your manufacturing requirements.

Success Stories

Packaging, Control Systems

"Control Systems in a Package" Going "lean" affects several aspects of control systems hardware, software and application development.

Nissan revs up its first full-size vehicles with new plant in Canton, award-winning productivity model & automated manufacturing systems.

Ideal Division

In-house OEM group clamps down on manufacturer's equipment-related cost-without sacrificing quality.

Reprint

ARC Insights

Industry trends and competitive pressures have caused manufacturers to move from Build to Stock (BTS) based on a forecast and towards Assembly to Order (ATO) with Just in Time (JIT) inventory management.