Modular Conveyors Facilitate Flexibility, Process Control

摘要

Continental Automotive Systems (Auburn Hills, MI), a division of Continental AG (Hannover, Germany), produces electronic control modules, including steering and brake systems, for the automotive industry. To cut production costs and the cost of accommodating new products at its newly acquired plant in Elma, NY, Continental decided to upgrade the conveyors it uses. The company also wanted to implement conveyors that could be easily combined with the controls software and communications systems that are increasingly a part of its production processes.