The Graben-Neudorf showcase factory

Industry 4.0 – Simulation

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Travel distances (simulation and real)

Routes can be tested and optimized at this stage and then transferred from the virtual to the real world at the click of a button. In SEW-EURODRIVE's showcase factory, various specially developed mobile assistance systems connect the individual work processes involved in gear unit assembly.

Industry 4.0 - Material supply

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Logistics assistant (material transport)

In SEW-EURODRIVE's showcase factory, various specially developed mobile assistance systems connect the individual work processes involved in gear unit assembly.

The logistics assistants supply the assembly islands with the correct mount-on components at precisely the right time.

Industry 4.0 - On the route

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Logistics assistant (moving clear)

The flat logistics assistants can carry up to 1.5 tons and navigate independently.

Industry 4.0 - Assembly assistent CPS

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Assembly assistant (cyber-physical system)

The assembly assistants support the mechanics in their work. In accordance with the Industry 4.0 philosophy, they become cyber-physical systems, equipped with all necessary product- and customer-related data.

Industry 4.0 - Assembly assistent – employees support

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Assembly assistant (aid for employees)

The assembly assistants and the adapted and integrated manufacturing processes support the employees in their work.

Industry 4.0 - Logistics product transport

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Logistics assistant (transport of final products)

Another family of assistants connects the other work steps in the showcase factory. The assistants transport the finished gearmotors out of assembly to the oil-filling and testing stations and then on to the paintshop.

Industry 4.0 - Handling assistent

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Handling assistant in the production

There are also fields of application for assistance systems in production. This is how SEW‑EURODRIVE tests a mobile handling assistant. This takes over monotonous jobs in machine assembly and thus lightens the workload of the operator.

Industry 4.0 is changing the role of humans in the overall processes. New areas of work are being created in which the processes in the showcase factory flow together. As the architect of the value creation chain, tasks increasingly consist of controlling, monitoring and optimizing processes.

Employees are then not so much assistants to the system but the key architects who interconnect the various individual steps as required. However, lightening the load for production employees in this way certainly does not mean that people become surplus to requirements or can even be rationalized away. Instead, workers simply operate on a redefined level.