We use cookies, similar technologies and tracking services

This website uses cookies, similar technologies and tracking services (hereinafter referred to as “Cookies”). We need your consent for Cookies, which not only serve to technically display our website, but also to enable the best possible use of our website and to improve it based on your user behavior, or to present content and marketing aligned with your interests. For these purposes, we cooperate with third-party providers (e.g. Salesforce, LinkedIn, Google, Microsoft, Piwik PRO). Through these partners you can also receive advertisements on other websites.
If you consent, you also accept certain subsequent processing of your personal data (e.g. storage of your IP address in profiles) and that our partners may transfer your data to the United States and, if applicable, to further countries. Such transfer involves the risk that authorities may access the data and that your rights may not be enforceable. Please select which Cookies we may use under ”Settings”. More information, particularly about your rights, e.g. to withdraw consent, is available in our Privacy Policy .

Settings

Only technically necessary Cookies

Accept everything

Legal Notice

Below, you can activate/deactivate the individual technologies that are used on this website.

Accept All

Essential

These Cookies make a website usable by providing basic functions such as page navigation, language settings, Cookie preferences and access to protected areas of the website. Cookies in this category additionally ensure that the website complies with the applicable legal requirements and security standards. Owing to the essential nature of these Cookies, you cannot prevent their use on our website. Details about these Cookies are available under 'More information'.

Functionality and personalization

These Cookies collect information about your habits when using our web pages and help us to enhance your user experience by tailoring the functions and attractiveness of our web pages based on your previous visits, location and browser settings. They also enable access to integrated third-party tools on our website (e.g., Microsoft Azure for single sign-on authentication). This can involve transferring your data to the United States (for information on the risks involved read Clause 1.5 of our Privacy Policy). If you refuse these Cookies, you might not be able to access the full functionality of the website. Details about the tools we use are available under 'More information'.

Analysis

These Cookies are used to compile basic usage and user statistics based on how our web pages are used (e.g. via Google Tag Manager, Piwik PRO). If you accept these Cookies, you simultaneously consent to your data being processed and transmitted to the United States by services such as Salesforce Pardot (for information on the risks involved read Clause 1.5 of our Privacy Policy). Details about the tools we use are available under 'More information'.

Marketing and social media

These Cookies help third-party sources collect information about how you share content from our website on social media or provide analytical data about your user behavior when you move between social media platforms or between our social media campaigns and our web pages (e.g., LinkedIn Insights). Marketing Cookies from third-party sources also help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising on other websites (e.g. Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising). We use these Cookies to optimize how we deliver our content to you. The third-party sources and social media platforms we use can transfer your data to the United States (for information on the risks involved read Clause 1.5 of our Privacy Policy). If you accept these Cookies, you simultaneously consent to your data being transferred and processed as described above. Details about the tools we use and our social media presence are available under 'More information'.

Back
More information

Save Settings

Legal Notice
EcoProFleet demonstration with audience

First AGV for paint shops

Jun 6, 2019

Whether small cars or SUVs, with electric motors or combustion engines, the range of vehicle models being painted in a plant is ever-increasing. Manufacturers want to be able to easily integrate new vehicle types into the production process. With EcoProFleet, Dürr has developed an automated guided vehicle that is precisely tailored to the requirements of a flexible and scalable paint shop.

This desire for flexibility and scalability is pushing linear production to its limits. Flexible automated guided vehicles, or AGVs for short, are an important element in the transition to modular production. Instead of transporting bodies using conveyor technology laid rigidly in the ground, they are moved by AGVs independently and in a parallel formation between workstations and intermediate storage. This eliminates waiting times that previously occurred with different processing times for different car bodies. Downtimes caused by sudden malfunctions are also reduced to a minimum, since AGVs can be redirected to a different workstation.

→ EcoProFleet is the first AGV that has been specifically optimized for the needs of paint shops. That is not only demonstrated by the platform's resistance to paints and solvents. Their low height of 255 mm means that the AGVs can go under all typical workstations in order to drive a car body into a workstation, hand over or pick up bodies, and thus work together perfectly at the interfaces. The integrated technology with laser scanner and safety limit speed guarantees a high level of safety.

EcoProFleet is our enabler for a scalable and flexible paint shop.

Stefano Bell , Product Manager

The concept for energy supply and control is particularly clever. It means that the AGV is ready for operation around the clock – without breaks for charging at the power outlet. This is enabled by supercapacitors as energy storage devices, which charge within just 1.5 minutes. The short time frame while the AGV is handing over or picking up a body is sufficient as loading time for the next section. All the AGVs are therefore always on the move and working. This is guaranteed by a sophisticated control system, which is connected to the central production control technology DXQcontrol. Dürr thus offers a consistent, intelligent control system across all levels for the use of AGVs in paint shops: the device control for physical control of the individual AGVs, the fleet control for route planning and the higher-level order planning are transparently linked via interfaces. This allows EcoProFleet to fully exploit its potential as a flexible and efficient transport system.

EcoReflect light tunnel
EcoProFleet – Driving a car body into the EcoReflect
modular work deck with EcoProFleet
EcoProFleet – Picking up a car body of the Modular Work Deck

From May 13 to 17, 2019 visitors of the 11th Open House had the chance to see the EcoProFleet handing over and picking up car bodies from several workstations.

Stefano Bell
Product Management
Dürr Systems AG
Carl-Benz-Str. 34
74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen
Germany
 Business Card.vcf

Further Links