Control Helps Kuka With DBOOM

摘要

Kuka Flexible Production Systems Corp. (Sterling Hts., MI) is a producer of automated/robotic production systems for car bodies and chassis. When Kuka decided to become a Tier I supplier of automobile bodies to DaimlerChrysler, the company faced the challenge of designing a body shop utilizing DBOOM (Design, Build, Own, Operate, and Maintain) philosophy. There were no restrictions on the equipment to be used other than the criterion to "utilize only field-proven technology."