Industrial automation specialist Kuka is to supply 50 robots for the production lines of an e-mobility provider.
Kuka system partner SAR Elektronic is building five fully-automated production and inspection lines for a leading German automotive supplier.
The lines will be equipped with 50 KR Quantec, KR Cybertech and KR Agilus series robots for fully-automated handling, plasma cleaning and bonding processes, and an integrated functional inspection.
These latest-generation Kuka robots are being used in five fully-automatic production and inspection lines for inverters – a module used in electromobility.
Longstanding system partner SAR is producing the cells for these lines in accordance with a standardised cleanroom concept at the headquarters in Dingolfing, Germany.
Following extensive testing and functional inspections, they are being delivered to two European plants and one Chinese plant.
The inverters manufactured there, in various power classes and variants, are installed in electric vehicles by two automotive manufacturers.
The finished inverters are handled fully automatically through eight inspection and labelling steps with a cycle time of 50 seconds.
SAR Elektronic expects that further production lines – and further robots – will be required in the coming years, depending on the market acceptance of electric vehicles.
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