Automation improves product quality, speeds production, reduces waste, strengthens supply chains and reduces labour.
Automation addresses supply chain, productivity, safety and quality challenges. The manual nature of wiring loom manufacture creates a need for automation to enable electrification and industry 4.0 without increasing risk and cost.
Simplified supply chains
Lowering Carbon Footprint and ensuring resilience in supply chains has never been more important.
Simplified supply chains
COVID-19, the grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez canal and, the war in Ukraine have all demonstrated how vulnerable global supply chains are to disruption.
Most wiring harnesses are manufactured in a few high skill, lower cost regions and shipped to assembly plants across the globe to be incorporated into final products. This requires a huge logistical chain and local stocking. It also limits the variations in the wiring harness that can be economically produced before stocking costs become unsustainable.
Automation means that production can be timed to demand. More variations of product can be produced, whilst simultaneously supply chains are simplified. Re-shoring is enabled, and with logistics reduced, carbon footprint is lowered.
Quality and Safety
Digitising manufacture from design to production eliminates errors and means the product is made accurately to design, every time.
Quality and Safety
The manual nature of traditional wiring harness production makes it impossible to design the route, placement and shape of the harness as precisely as all the other components in a modern product. As a result finite element analysis is impossible and the wiring harness is not an optimised component.
Manual handling during manufacture and assembly of a wiring harness is impossible to monitor, so wires tend to be oversized to allow for the mechanical stresses.
Errors in the translation of a design into the final wiring harness are difficult and expensive to avoid.
Automation solves all these issues and makes possible the creation of a digital verification of the end to end process.
Productivity
Automation increases production speed and reduces reliance on human resources.
Productivity
Traditional wiring harness production requires many sequential processes. These processes require a very high level of labour input, space and time. More time is required to verify the operation of the final harness. Small variations in for example trimming wire to length can multiply into significant costs in high production runs. Changing the wiring harness or customising is generally too expensive.
The processes developed by Q5D to automate the manufacture of wiring harnesses carry out operations faster in most cases than a human can achieve, and can operate 24 hours a day with minimal maintenance breaks. The space needed for production is also reduced as the manufacturing cells are smaller.
Precision component placement means fewer rejects and less waste. As a result costs and environmental impact are reduced.
Simplified supply chains
Lowering Carbon Footprint and ensuring resilience in supply chains has never been more important.
Simplified supply chains
COVID-19, the grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez canal and, the war in Ukraine have all demonstrated how vulnerable global supply chains are to disruption.
Most wiring harnesses are manufactured in a few high skill, lower cost regions and shipped to assembly plants across the globe to be incorporated into final products. This requires a huge logistical chain and local stocking. It also limits the variations in the wiring harness that can be economically produced before stocking costs become unsustainable.
Automation means that production can be timed to demand. More variations of product can be produced, whilst simultaneously supply chains are simplified. Re-shoring is enabled, and with logistics reduced, carbon footprint is lowered.
Quality and Safety
Digitising manufacture from design to production eliminates errors and means the product is made accurately to design, every time.
Quality and Safety
The manual nature of traditional wiring harness production makes it impossible to design the route, placement and shape of the harness as precisely as all the other components in a modern product. As a result finite element analysis is impossible and the wiring harness is not an optimised component.
Manual handling during manufacture and assembly of a wiring harness is impossible to monitor, so wires tend to be oversized to allow for the mechanical stresses.
Errors in the translation of a design into the final wiring harness are difficult and expensive to avoid.
Automation solves all these issues and makes possible the creation of a digital verification of the end to end process.
Productivity
Automation increases production speed and reduces reliance on human resources.
Productivity
Traditional wiring harness production requires many sequential processes. These processes require a very high level of labour input, space and time. More time is required to verify the operation of the final harness. Small variations in for example trimming wire to length can multiply into significant costs in high production runs. Changing the wiring harness or customising is generally too expensive.
The processes developed by Q5D to automate the manufacture of wiring harnesses carry out operations faster in most cases than a human can achieve, and can operate 24 hours a day with minimal maintenance breaks. The space needed for production is also reduced as the manufacturing cells are smaller.
Precision component placement means fewer rejects and less waste. As a result costs and environmental impact are reduced.
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