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Automotive Assembly Track and Trace System

Posted in Automotive, Manufacturing Automation and Intelligence

Summary

DMC worked with a Tier 1 Automotive Supplier to provide component traceability in their assemblies to fulfill their customer's requests for full assembly in their assembly process. The project provided both building material and traceability for a partially automated assembly process for a turbo housing using Siemens Opcenter. 

Screenshot of Transistor Robotic Arm and Car

Solution

While working virtually due to the pandemic, DMC worked with the client to develop and test everything remotely using Siemens Opcenter. To meet the client's required performance rates, our engineers optimized the Opcenter installation as well as added additional customization to handle transactions on a batch basis as opposed to one at a time. We did this by writing a custom UI/UX to Opcenter using ASP.Net and Microsoft IIS. This provided a simpler interface for operators to use and allowed for faster throughput for tracking manual operations. 

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DMC ultimately designed a method to quickly track the history and serial number of every piece of the subassembly as it moved through the assembly project to determine if anything had a quality issue in the manufacturing process. 

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Customer Benefits

  • Quick history traceability
  • Better manage and resolve quality issues
  • Efficient manufacturing process
  • Fully traceable building materials for completed assemblies

Technologies

  • Siemens Opcenter
  • REST APIs
  • Microsoft IIS
  • ASP.NET
  • REACT