Despite the high production rates required in the automotive industry, some small components are being produced manually in peripheral countries where the labor costs are lower than in the middle of the Europe. When the production must be highly flexible, new challenges are placed and, in these cases, some companies adopt intensive labor processes. This work is based on an industrial demand in order to become an intensive labor process in intensive technology process, minimizing human intervention (without removing it), increasing productivity ensuring the quality, and maintaining the high flexibility already achieved in the assembly process of drive systems for automotive windscreen wiper. The equipment developed uses intensive technology through automation systems, needing an operator who is responsible by the initial feeding process. After that, all the process is automatic. The production cycle time is reduced from 11 to 7 s and the quality is ensured. The equipment is very flexible, allowing to assembly 20 different kinds of sets for the same purpose, changing just the gig where the main component is assembled.
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