Robotics & Innovation Magazine takes a look behind the scenes at UK-based commercial electric vehicle manufacturer Arrival’s Microfactory concept.
In the video above, Rob Thompson, chief of materials at Arrival, walks through the material making process at the company’s Microfactory in Bicester to see how the company’s technologies come together to make its proprietary composite materials.
Thompson explains the roles of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that link each cell together, to the robotic cells themselves, which are capable of performing multiple tasks compared to a conventional production line that sees each robot carry out one function.
Then, in the video below, Arrival’s Giuseppe Montano, chief of mobile robotics, and Raj Vyas, lead process engineer, provide insight into how the company builds its Microfactories, which are designed to allow production processes to be more dynamic and flexible:
Finally, Arrival’s chief of product, Patrick Bion, and chief design officer, Jeremy Offer, tell the design story of the battery-electric Arrival Van, which relies on a simple, reduced and robotic assembly process that eschews all welding, painting and use of complex jigs:
