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Customer demands for body assembly systems have increased due to the global competition for international operating automotive companies in order to reach cost advantages, shorter lead-times from vehicle concept to start of production (SOP) and a short launch period to get the maximum output in a very short time. TMS has applied a modular concept approach including computer aided engineering and design (CAE/CAD) to realize a body assembly system for an underbody rear complete with cost and uptime advantages.

Increased international competition of automotive companies have lead to new approaches and concepts for the manufacturing processes, especially for body-in-white (BIW) manufacturing systems. The main issues are competitive cost advantages, shorter launch periods and quality of produced vehicles. The supplier acting as general contractor and the customer have applied a new approach for operating and engineering as well as installing a segmented BIW-system. This paper will present the conceptional approach based on an advanced operating concept to engineer and realize a competitive BIW-system.