The seat assembly line transfers several variants of seats originating from 3 common base frames. The production line takes the product from a steal frame through to a complete squab. The bespoke fixtures can accommodate all ranges of seats without tooling changes. The fixtures on mounted on the G2 Gimbalator. This provides the customer with 180° of movement once in station to allow the operator to perform a series of dressing, finishing and testing processes.
As certain processes have varying takt times, the system will buffer them accordingly to provide optimum throughput and a balanced line.
The system is made up of 30 station spanning 30 meters with an additional 3 buffer stations.
There is 1600mm between workstations and buffer stations in between that giving a pitch of 800mm.
