Blanking Line
A coil spiral pays off steel that advances under a shear, which drops and releases a finished blank onto the destack pile.
A coil spiral pays off steel that advances under a shear, which drops and releases a finished blank onto the destack pile.
A door lifts off the body at the take-off station, travels the overhead door line and comes back down onto the same body further along.
A body shell on a rotating carrier tips down through the bath surface, submerges for the coat and rises clear draining.
A car sits on the dynamometer rollers that spin up under its wheels while a speed trace sweeps through the test ramp and settles back to rest.
Two geo-gate sides swing in onto a loose underbody and a roof bow drops, closing the body-in-white to datum before they part again.
A shot sleeve drives alloy into a large die cavity that fills and cools, and the cluster of small pressings it replaces fades out beside it.
A supplier rack of modules feeds a merge point where each module drops onto the body whose build slot matches it as the line steps on.
Bodies on the final line hold at their stations while a takt bar drains, then all step one pitch together as it refills.
The outgoing tooling cart rolls out of the station and the incoming one rolls in, and the fixture silhouette above it changes to the new body profile.
Coating layers stack on a panel section one after another against a micron scale, and the total film thickness marker climbs into its band.
A tandem press ram descends onto a flat blank between the die halves and lifts to leave a formed panel profile behind it.
A hem roller tracks along a door flange and the raised outer skin folds down over the inner panel in its wake.
A sealer nozzle runs the floorpan seam path and a continuous bead draws in behind it before the next body arrives.
A weld gun steps along a body flange pinching shut at each pitch, leaving a row of nuggets that fills the flange weld by weld.
A formed panel section released from the die relaxes away from the nominal profile and a deviation bar grows to the measured gap.