The Automotive division at Motorola Government Enterprise Mobility Solutions (GEMS, Shaumburg, IL) produces embedded electronics and communications systems for the automotive and heavy-vehicle markets. Recently, the company built an automated test and assembly line at its Elma, NY, plant for the manufacture of automatic transmission controllers. These controllers are part of Motorola's Miniaturized Hardened Electronic Modules line (MHEMs) and can be mounted either on or inside a transmission casing.
In addition to performing a variety of assembly and inspection tasks, the line needed to be both flexible and fully scalable. With this in mind, the company built the line using four Polaris Multi-Process and seven Polaris Junior assembly cells from Universal Instruments (Binghamton, NY).