BMW performs a lot of welding operations at its assembly plants, which are located throughout Europe and in South Carolina. Recently, the automaker hired The EDAG Group to develop a small-lot welding system for a European plant.
During system development, Manfred Hahl, managing director and COO of EDAG, researched several rotary indexing tables, but learned that none were strong enough to bear 16 tons. So he reached out to automation specialist Weiss GmbH.