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New Automated Methods for Saab 900


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NEW AUTOMATED PRODUCTION METHODS FOR SAAB 900

The large platform moves, seemingly uncontrolled and without direction through the new Saab 900 body plant in Trolihattan, Sweden. Suddenly it turns, as if it had a will of its own, towards a bank of semi-finished automobile bodies; a lifting fork appears and the car body is picked up onto the platform, which then moves on.

No humans can be seen anywhere near the platform and no tracks seem to guide its movements. Still it does its job, moving car bodies from the different stages of assembly and in and out of the body banks.

The strange driver-less platforms, following magnetic lines in the floor, and directed by computer, are part of the major addition and rebuilding of the body plant at Saab-Scania's main Saab car plant in Trollhattan.

A major portion of the new facilities have been made for the assembly of the front end of the new Saab 900, as well as for complete body welding, and involve a number of highly automated robot welding units. Robots do all of the body point welding totally automatically. Welds are automatically controlled and the welding current continuously adjusted for even quality. Should a robot miss one of its points, an adjustment station is immediately and automatically notified.

The new Saab 900 plant was designed to ensure more uniform and even higher quality in the Saab cars, as well as to provide better work surroundings and opportunities for the factory employees. This is in line with the continuous SaabScania work on self-determination and more involvement by the workers in the production process.

In order to make their work more interesting and challenging, the factory employees now, besides maintaining the supply of materials to the machines, are also in charge of supervising and controlling the entire production process and conduct some maintenance of the machinery. Control of their own output, as well as some adjustments, are also part of the workers' duties. As in many other parts of the Saab-Scania plants, the workers, in groups, are able to set up their own assignments and duties, thus affording opportunities for different jobs on different day and for considerable influence on the production processes.


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