SUCCESS STORIES
Turning a Vision into a Reality: Eisenmann Builds First Skidless Paint Shop for Electric Vehicles
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n Shaoxing, in China’s eastern Zhejiang province, Eisenmann is
Moreover, a range of other Eisenmann technologies are to
constructing a turnkey paint shop for electric-vehicle startup DEARCC.
be deployed at DEARCC. The Shaoxing facility will feature a
The carmaker employs highly flexible, state-of-the-art manufacturing
pretreatment and electrocoating zone equipped with compact,
technologies – and ordered a skidless paint shop from plant engineering
cost-saving E-Shuttle 200 conveyors (Fig. 4). Additionally, Eisenmann © Eisenmann
expert Eisenmann, headquartered in southern Germany. The solution
will supply spray booths and dryers complete with energyefficient E-Cubes for paint
uses VarioLoc conveyors
overspray removal – plus work
to link individual process
decks, and the ventilation
steps. The project will be
and exhaust air purification
completed in record time:
systems.
Eisenmann was tasked in the summer of 2018, and
The brain of the paint shop is
installation has already
the E-MES production control
begun. The first electric
system from Eisenmann
vehicles are expected to roll
Industrial Software Company
off the line from late 2019.
(Enisco). It supports intelligent
Eisenmann’s modular
management in the shape
VarioLoc conveyors are the
of online planning, material
heart of the highly efficient, agile smart paint shop for DEARCC (Fig. 1). Eliminating the need for heavy skids revolutionizes the
flows control and integrated
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digital worker guidance –
Figure 1: Eisenmann’s modular VarioLoc conveyors are the heart of the highly efficient, agile smart paint shop for DEARCC.
enabling diverse car body types, materials and © Eisenmann
movement of car bodies.
customer-specific
The individual shuttles (dubbed “Locs”) travel along a rail in the floor (Fig. 2).
surfaces to be painted within a single facility.
Removing skids lays the foundation for far greater
“That is Industry 4.0
flexibility in production – in terms of cycle times,
in action: connected
throughput, capacity and vehicle architectures.
manufacturing,
In the Shaoxing factory, DEARCC will produce a new
where our flexible
E-SUV model named ME7 (Fig. 3). The new car is the
hardware and
first model under the high-end brand Enovate which
intelligent software
was released by DEARCC this November. Enovate
solutions are
ME7 uses a wide-body design while shrinking the
seamlessly linked,”
window section as much as possible to form an
explains Bruno
aerodynamic Gulfstream shoulder, lowering the drag coefficient and making the vehicle visually very dynamic.
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Figure 2: The individual “Locs” travel along a rail in the floor.
Casorati, Senior Vice President, Automotive