catalogue search
P. 01
P. 02
P. 03
|
|
|
You may also be interested in
Automatic guided vehicle, Tractor, Trailer, Platform truck, Towing tractor
Text version of the page
| Tractor instead of forklift ln-plant transport of parts with modified concept In DaimlerChrysler's gearbox plant in Hedelfingen, Germany, a towing unit with battery-powered tractor and lifting trailer is now being used for in-plant transport. A task that was performed in the past solely using forklifts. The project will soon go live. While competitors have their automatic gearboxes manufactured externally, DaimlerChrysler (DC) manufactures all of these components in-house. They are manufactured in the gearbox product service centre that forms part of the Unterturkheim plant. Gearboxes have been manufactured for the company in Hedelfingen in Neckartal, part of Stuttgart, since 1959. Not long ago the ten-millionth gearbox came off the line here. Gearbox production almost around the clock Today automatic gearboxes and manual gearboxes for rear-wheel drive configurations as well as manual and automatic gearboxes for vehicles with front-wheel drive are manufactured and assembled in the Hedelfingen plant. In some areas there are up to four shifts, that is three shifts during the week and the fourth shift at the weekend. The recipients of gearboxes for rear-wheel drive configurations include the DC plants in Stuttgart, Sindelfingen, Bremen and Dusseldorf as well as other vehicle assembly plants. The front-wheel drive gearboxes are primarily delivered to Rastatt and Ludwigsfelde. As can be imagined, there are many logistics tasks in such a plant: work in goods inwards, transport from production location to production location, the supply of parts to assembly and later to despatch, handling empties and much more. Around 5500 pallets are handled per day. All these tasks are performed by the technical service centre. This service centre has a fleet of around 40 different industrial vehicles in Hedelfingen alone and also operates in shifts. | ||||||