Telelift MultiCar in automotive industry
BMW Munich
Within 21 days, a record-breaking modernization of a conveyor system for inside door panels at BMW’s Munich plant was completed, including the dismantling of a 16-year-old conveyor system.
Increasing performance and process safety as well as maintaining availability – these requirements could no longer be perfectly met by the 16-year-old conveyor system for transporting interior door panels.
For this reason, BMW decided to have the transport system renewed by Telelift. Within three weeks the Telelift experts replaced the old system with a modern, state-of-the-art transport system.
The task was to completely uninstall the old conveyor system in order to install a new one. This included the steel construction, electrical installation and commissioning of the system with new software to integrate with the customer’s internal logistics. The new system combines the order picking area with the assembly line in an approximately 320 m long track system. The track network guides approximately 50 MultiCar transport vehicles from the ground floor through five technical floors, passing through false ceilings, directly to the four delivery points on the door production assembly lines.
The Telelift MultiCar transportation system with a speed of 0.6 m/s in three-dimensional operation is designed for payloads of up to 40 kg. With its 50 vehicles the conveyor system performs approximately 4,200 transports in two shifts. Space-saving horizontal and vertical track installation in false ceilings and unused vertical lines recovered valuable production space. The transportation system is controlled by a modern PLC head control. Visualization was integrated into the customer’s central production supervision. Significantly reduced energy consumption provides cost savings. Maintenance costs have been reduced as the newly installed system is easier to maintain.
