Build a Foundation for AGVs and AMRs
Squeezing more efficiency from your EV production lines will help your facility push more fully assembled, quality products through its doors so you can improve lead times and get inventory out to customers faster—which keeps costs lower for them and you. And these efficiency improvements can be made without hiring hundreds or thousands of laborers
By taking a flexible manufacturing approach that allows you to build EVs cost effectively and sustainably while maintaining quality, you can ramp up as demand for electric vehicles increases. At the heart of this approach is a robust EV production network that supports new technology and creates infrastructure to acquire, transmit, orchestrate and manage the data that automakers need to boost efficiency.
Optimizing your network will not only prepare your plant for the future and allow changes to be made on the fly, but also improve uptime and minimize exposure to threats that could hamper EV production. Because production technologies change almost as fast as market demands, building flexibility and adaptability into your network now will translate to efficient, future-ready operations.
While automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are the tools that will help you improve efficiency and shift from manual to automated assembly, your network is what connects them to critical information. Without that capability, the machines won’t be able to send or receive data, coordinate motion or complete tasks. In other words, they become ineffective.
Tap into Your Plant’s Data
In addition to supporting autonomous work, an EV production network connects employees to the information they need to make smarter, faster decisions. Instead of making educated guesses, operators and supervisors can have metrics in front of them that continuously report on availability, performance and quality. It can all be displayed in one place so everyone can see what’s happening with their machines and processes. Live overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) data can tell you which lines are running well, which lines need attention and which ones are down (and why).
A robust network also allows EV production facilities to realize the value of predictive maintenance. Laborers can rely on real-time data about critical assets to decide where and how to focus maintenance tasks. Operators will know when a specific parameter is behaving differently so issues can be addressed right away before failure occurs.
Imagine Your Future-Ready Solutions
Belden knows how to bring your data and equipment together to make your processes and systems more efficient.
Digital automation consultants, who are part of our Customer Innovation Center, work closely with you to:
- Identify the scale and complexity of your production
- Analyze your current situation and assess processes
- Validate your assumptions about the causes of production bottlenecks
- Pinpoint the data you need in order to address challenges
- Gain access to that information through the right network design
When your EV production facility is ready to implement future-ready solutions to meet the demand headed our way, reach out to Belden’s automotive experts. We’ll help you get started—and guide you every step of the way so you hit your production targets and maximize the return on your technological investments.
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