“Sometimes it is as busy in the plant as it is on the highway,” Joerg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Production & Supply Chain, stated. “What you have seen here with Factory 56 is our blueprint for the production of the future,” he added.

The carmaker affirms this as the proper setup to understand the large transformation which isn’t the same as its competition. AGV, powered via heavy digitization, is the protagonist of the corporate’s long run manufacturing.

This specific manufacturing unit claims to be 25% extra environment friendly than the corporate’s earlier most efficient manufacturing unit. Surprisingly, this used to be accomplished via putting off over a dozen robots and embellishing digitization, and syncing it with human sources.

The new in-house-developed digitalization setup is known as MO (Mercedes Operations) 360 stage which will digitalize each and every manufacturing procedure, the corporate stated.

The procedure additionally is helping building up transparency and potency and stay them knowledgeable on the place each and every phase is, and if there’s a high quality problem, on occasion even earlier than it actually occurs.

“So we are working on this very hard. And the nice thing is, with this digitalization setup, we basically have every major update, because we do it on our own,” Burzer stated.

Interestingly, even other folks operating at the production line are professional to do a low degree of coding. This is helping as they know the place the demanding situations are and will repair them on the proper time.

The manufacturing unit has moved forward of the conveyor belt and followed essentially the most versatile buying groceries cart style the place 1000’s of AGVs of various sizes stay ferrying portions all over the meeting and production traces. The carmaker calls the transition from lean production to virtual manufacturing.

“If you talk about the production of the future, what was called Lean Production in the past 10 or 15 years ago, I would call it today digital production,” Burzer stated. “The focus is on enhancing HPV (hours per vehicle production) and it’s also about the number of people used in logistics. We offset a potential disadvantage of less automation with extremely high efficiency from digitalization. So that’s how we calculate it,” he stated.

Burzer, who leads 75,000 staff individuals throughout 34 vegetation, stated that “soon the same level of digitization and reduction in robotic automation will be implemented in all plants.”

Digitization isn’t restricted to inner processes solely but additionally to the exterior provide chain beneath its Container X program. “We’re connecting our digitalization approach, not only internally in the value creation process, but also to the supply chain by managing the interface,” he stated.

Fully versatile manufacturing line The German Luxury carmaker isn’t development an EV-only plan. Therefore it builds all powertrain variants on one line at Factory 56. In this plant, the corporate has offered a complete flex marriage which is a station the place frame and powertrains are coming in combination. This characteristic allows them to construct all powertrain variants and frame kind variants on one line.

In this manufacturing unit, the corporate produces all frame sorts and several types of powertrain automobiles, together with S elegance and Maybach hybrid, and the EQS, at the identical line. From this manufacturing unit, they’re serving greater than 100 markets.

“So we have this pretty interesting innovation, which was launched in Factory 56, and we are in the process of launching in all plans right now,” Burzer added.

The complete flex marriage characteristic may be going to assist relating to uncertainty at the powertrain at some point whether or not it’s all EV or combined one.

“So you think about it, if you have a situation in 2030 and beyond where you have an EV-only market requirement. No problem, we can do it and the full flex marriage setup. It’s not a very expensive setup but a very intelligent one. So it costs a couple of millions, but not a couple of 100 millions, which you have to spend to build a new plant,” Burzer concluded.

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Group income rose via 7% to EUR 36.4 billion and changed EBIT greater via 8% to EUR 4.9 billion as the corporate’s focal point on Top-End Luxury automobiles, battery electrical automobiles (BEV) and top rate trucks in addition to a constant focal point on prices, helped to offset decrease gross sales and better uncooked subject material prices.

The automobiles are to be delivered successively over the process the yr, the automaker stated.

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