Comau Assembly Line Helps Geely Automobile Double Production
TURIN, Italy—Comau has developed and deployed an automated edrive assembly line for Geely Automobile Holdings at its Geely Veremt plant in Ningbo, China. The line performs end-to-end assembly of the electric motors, gearboxes and inverters.
Designed in close collaboration with the Geely team, the Comau line uses a flexible automatic production system to assemble the permanent magnet motor rotors, gearboxes and electronics drives, in addition to automated quality control and testing. The innovative solution increases the plant’s automation rate from 40 to 80 percent, while delivering a full-scale production capacity of 120,000 jobs per year.