CONVEYING THE CAT

摘要

LB Foster Materials Handling has designed, manufactured and installed an assembly line conveyor solution for the Jaguar XF Sportbrake luxury estate car. Jaguar's XF Sportbrake is produced at the famous Castle Bromwich plant where Spitfires and Lancaster bombers were built in WW2. The 112-acre plant, which operates 24 hours a day, became a dedicated Jaguar factory in 1980 and today, the XF Sportbrake is built on the same assembly line as the award-winning Jaguar XF saloon. To accommodate the XF Sportbrake, Jaguar Land Rover selected Comau to build a dedicated tabbing and framing cell in E Block. This cell takes the Sportbrake body floor out of the existing XF saloon assembly line to have the unique side body panels, roof and other components put in place, tabbed and then welded by robots before being returned to the main assembly line.