Smart Manufacturing By B&R

Pune based B&R Industrial Automation offers smart manufacturing solutions for maximising productivity in automotive shop floors.

- Deven Lad

The automotive factories of the future are expected to be driven by integrated automation. While concepts like ‘Just-In-Time’ management of inventory system that exists today, help align raw materials with production schedules, integrated automation is the need of the hour. Both machines and assembly lines are required to be connected for seamless operations at shopfloors. Pune based B&R Industrial Automation (B&R) believes it has the right tools to address the void. Its solutions are claimed to integrate machines and assembly lines on a shop floor seamlessly. Using advanced automation technology the company claims to maximise the productivity of an entire manufacturing line. Automation backed solutions, it is believed, can help the shopfloors at Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and ancillaries to attain the desired levels of agility and flexibility in order to realise on-demand manufacturing. The company’s product range also offers solutions to reduce the downtime, lower frequency of ad-hoc failures, improve changeover efficiency and set real-time data-based predictive maintenance schedules. Averred Sivaram PV, Non-Executive Chairman of B&R Industrial Automation India, “The focus of the Indian automotive industry today is more towards an increase in diversity of applications rather than a temptation to obtain and deploy new or latest gadgets.” Expressed Sivaram that the Integrated Automation solutions provider had over 35 years of experience in the domain giving it the confidence to deploy scalable solutions and cutting edge technology from its portfolio.