Design and construction of a material fastening system for automotive finishing supplies

Abstract

The opening of opportunities in the automotive sector, the global market currently forces companies to be more competitive in their daily activities, this requires them to adopt new strategies, tools and techniques, in order to optimization processes, reduce waste, decrease costs, etc. Automation and the use of smart devices in the industrial sector has evolved impressively, due to improving and increasing production, it also allows to produce better quality products without requiring the control of human intervention to be operated. However, today the use of increasingly sophisticated devices not only allows companies to be more competitive, but also contributes to improving their processes by reducing operating times per workstation. It should be noted that through the implementation of automated devices, not only are production processes improved, in the same time it allows workers to carry out their work activities more easily and comfortably, the objective is avoiding errors or line stops. The present project aims to design and propose a system to provide fastening elements and to saving raw materials, reducing downtime and improving workstation ergonomics for workers in an automotive industry, with the aim of improving production processes, but it could be applied in other industrial sector.