An IT-based production guide assists workers at HA-BE GmbH like a navigation system — errors are avoided, parts are traceable, reworking becomes less necessary.
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© HA-BE Gehäusebau GmbH Assembly assistance system at HA-BE: Assembling sheets of metal with assistance Published in the journal “IT&Production“, edition 03/2018 Like a navigation system, the IT-based assembly assistant guides the workers of HA-BE Gehäusebau GmbH through the processes of metal sheet processing. The application helps to avoid errors and to always be able to trace installed parts. After more than a year of usage of the system, it is very obvious that rework of components needs to be done a lot less frequently. HA-BE Gehäusebau GmbH, located in the tance. This way, especially high-volume pro- Lower Bavarian town of Altheim near Landshut, duction processes can be easily illustrated on is specialized in industrial processing of sheets screen for our colleagues in assembly“, says of metal. In order to meet the requirements of Oliver Hampe, production manager at HA-BE. the purchasers world-wide, from automation In addition, usage of the assembly assistance engineering, electrical industries, mechanical system was to increase process security, from and medical engineering, highest possible which officials expected to save time and quality needs to be produced. In order to achieve this goal, the manufacturer has been using the assembly assistance system PG of CSP GmbH & Co. KG for over a year now. The software accompanies the worker in the assembly much like a navigation system accompanies the driver in road traffic, and presets the exact job for each work step. To do so, the software visualizes even the most complex work processes step by step with images on a screen. The basic idea behind the introduction of the assembly assistance system was to stop producing rejects and to establish a zero-error Rework ratio decreases significantly HA-BE manufactures individually and upon customers’ orders. This requires high flexibility. The first work station on which cases for machine controllers are being produced was equipped with PG in March 2016. At this workstation, a wrench control, a label printer and an electronically monitored component holder were additionally connected via the already existing interfaces. Since every individual process is displayed by the system in detail and acknowledged by the respective worker, the “In order to make our final product as safe as then, says Hampe. Rework is also accompa- rework ratio has dropped significantly since possible and to get production to be as efficient as possible, we at HA-BE have decided to implement a software for assembly assis- nied by the application. This way, the manufacturing company is able to always deliver flawless products in the end.

thus save the time of manually entering this information and generating a new serial number“, explains the production manager. Monitoring of critical components Cooling elements, for example, are among the critical components at HA-BE due to their central role in the cases. The reason for this is that failure of a cooling element might under cer- © HA-BE Gehäusebau GmbH tain circumstances lead to the defect of the entire device. This is why it is especially im- Optimizing set-up times Only a few months later, additional work stations for module assembly for offshore wind power plants were...

In addition, we were also very satisfied with the quality of handling“, says Hampe. As a consequence, the worker guidance will be introduced into further additional production lines in the future. About HA-BE Gehäusebau GmbH HA-BE is a manufacturer of cases. As a system provider, the company is specialized in customer-specific production of sheets of metal, modules and mechanical systems for electrical and automotive industry, the energy sector and medical engineering. HA-BE is active world-wide and has its own production sites in Europe, Asia and the US. Any further questions? Please do...