* Simulation of painting processes optimizes production
* Early planning cuts costs
* Complex calculations reduce testing
Stuttgart, Dec 11, 2006
The DaimlerChrysler researchers are developing special calculation methods to optimize painting processes. Even prior to production start-up, they can thus determine how a vehicle body can be painted as efficiently as possible or how an existing painting process can be improved. This early planning helps cut costs and enhances planning reliability.
No commercial program package is yet available on the market that can make predictions about painting processes. The DaimlerChrysler researchers are therefore using models to emulate the various systems and their dynamic processes. The findings from these simulations can be transferred to reality.
Toward practical application
With this tool, the production planners and developers can already test a newly designed vehicle body’s suitability for the painting process at an early stage. Complicated, expensive tests can be largely dispensed with, since the calculations provide reliable data. With their help, the planners are able to determine in advance the requirements for production and can design the processes accordingly. Modeling and numerical simulation are excellently suited for optimizing the existing infrastructure even in the ongoing production process. Paint robots, for example, can be adapted more rapidly and precisely to the task at hand.
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