BUSINESS: STAMPING
SECTOR: AUTOMOTIVE
CUSTOMER: Nanjing Xingqiao Y-tec Automobile Parts Co., Ltd.
DATE: June 30, 2020
Nanjing Xingqiao Y-tec Automobile Parts Co., Ltd. is the one of the 2 Chinese implantations of Y-tec, the Japanese car part manufacturer. Its Chinese plant located in Nanjing is equiped with tandem pressline, transfer pressline, blanking pressline, hot stamping pressline, and welding line composed of spot welding, arc welding, shot blasting, laser procesing and e-coating machines.
In June 2020, WEBEN SMART finished the installation on the Tier One’s tandem pressline by updating equipment and improving the overall functionality and productivity of the line.
The retrofit consisted of changing the KUKA robots equipped with automatic tool changes and carbon beams, optimize the EOAT, optimize trajectories of the robots and ameliorate the front of line area.
Replace or Retrofit? Retrofit is the cost-efficient way of improving the overall functionality and productivity by using advanced and updated technologies and bring your equipments into the Industry 4.0 age.
Every way to save operational spending is valuable and doing it while ensuring fast recovering after maintenance breaks, increasing safety, prevent downtime, reducing number of error and quality deviations is other advantages from retrofitting your current lines.